出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：Originally published in Glot International 1,7, page 8, September 1995. Many years ago I heard a lecture by the mathematical linguist Solomon Marcus with the memorable title ‘Linguistics as a pilot science’. Linguistics is a pilot science in the sense that concepts and theoretical frameworks developed in linguistics tend to be borrowed as models in other sciences. Most of us are familiar with the influence linguistic ideas have had in such fields as anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, literary analysis, musicology, semiotics, and social psychology. But to fully appreciate the pilot science status of linguistics these days, one has to turn to molecular biology and biochemistry, and theories of the structure of DNA.
