Publisher's Synopsis
This book initially undertook to make available to linguists an extensive update of the junction grammar' model of language. However, as the project progressed, it became increasingly apparent that the upgrade model closely resembled what Benjamin Whorf may well have presented as his own formal model linking MIND, LANGUAGE, and REALITY had his life been extended. Coupled with this discovery came the realization that the author had more or less stumbled upon a seminal view of the 'big picture.' To test the consistency and systematicity of this surprising perspective, the model was ultimately coupled with a system of notation complete with its own primes to elucidate the substance and processes of universal structuring which arise from its axiomatic base. As the principles revealed by the research merged into a coherent 'one-liner, ' they echoed loudly the brazen proclamation of another star in the linguistic galaxy: "Linguistics has got to accept its responsibility now, as being the core science. In a sense it has to replace physics as the leading science." (Michael Halliday) This work undertakes to demonstrate why both Whorf and Halliday were correct in declaring linguistic science to be at the very core of epistemology and to formulate the essential features of the notation required to make the resulting LANGUAGE' system explicit.
