Communicating without Language and Grammar
Chronicling the Development of a New Science
1st Edition
Published on 2. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
161 pages
978-1-0364-6747-0 (ISBN)
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The book introduces a new hard science, which originated in an effort to solve the fundamental problems of linguistic theory: linguistics, which was far from being scientific, wanted to become a science.
This new approach to analysing how people communicate provides properly scientific theory in a number of areas formerly thought to be outside the reach of a proper science. It unifies the hard sciences and the soft sciences and the humanities as analysable in just one new science.
The book focuses on people, not language, grammar or any other such soft concept. It provides reasons why we must move our studies out of philosophy and into standard science. It shows how abstractions as known in older linguistics are flawed as science. The book provides a definitive historical perspective on the problems facing linguistics. There is a good discussion of prediction in scientific theory.
This new approach to analysing how people communicate provides properly scientific theory in a number of areas formerly thought to be outside the reach of a proper science. It unifies the hard sciences and the soft sciences and the humanities as analysable in just one new science.
The book focuses on people, not language, grammar or any other such soft concept. It provides reasons why we must move our studies out of philosophy and into standard science. It shows how abstractions as known in older linguistics are flawed as science. The book provides a definitive historical perspective on the problems facing linguistics. There is a good discussion of prediction in scientific theory.
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Victor H. Yngve | Patricia C. Sutcliffe | Bernard Sypniewski
Communicating without Language and Grammar
Chronicling the Development of a New Science
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05/2025
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Victor H. Yngve (1920-2012) was a distinguished scholar affiliated with several prestigious institutions, including MIT, USA, where he directed the Mechanical Translation Research Project from 1953 to 1965, and the University of Chicago, USA, where he served as a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Psychology, and chaired the Committee on Information Sciences and the Institute for Computer Research.
Dr Lara Burazer is a distinguished linguist and university professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, with over 25 years of experience in teaching at the university level.
Bernard Sypniewski is an American scholar. He retired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rowan University in Camden, NJ, USA, a position he had held since 1998.
Dr Patricia C. Sutcliffe is a distinguished scholar in Germanic Studies. She has made significant contributions to the field through her research on 19th-century German philology and her extensive work as an editor and translator at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.
Dr Lara Burazer is a distinguished linguist and university professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, with over 25 years of experience in teaching at the university level.
Bernard Sypniewski is an American scholar. He retired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rowan University in Camden, NJ, USA, a position he had held since 1998.
Dr Patricia C. Sutcliffe is a distinguished scholar in Germanic Studies. She has made significant contributions to the field through her research on 19th-century German philology and her extensive work as an editor and translator at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.