Două încercări de sistematizare a proceselor de analogie în lingvistică.

Pe marginea concepţiilor lui J. Kuryłowicz şi Witold Mańczak

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the individual attempts of two Polish linguists – Jerzy Kuryłowicz and Witold Mańczak – to elaborate, in the mid-20th century, a general theory of the language changes brought about by analogy. This presupposed a formalization of the analogy process dynamics that would
allow the determination of not only the causes or conditions that made those analogical processes take place but also the general tendencies that analogy would follow, once it took action. Even if both linguists admitted that it could not be foretold when exactly a change by means of analogy would take place, nevertheless they claimed that, once the process had started, it was possible to establish the general development directions, which made them speak about the existence of some “laws”, namely “hypotheses” or tendencies as far as analogical changes are concerned.