Universal Grammar of Matrix Proposition
Hyung-Yul Kang · Waseda University Repository (Waseda University) · 1982
Universal grammar means a grammar which can be used as a common core of all natural languages. Matrix Proposition is suggested as such a common core. Proposition is what is talked about a world. A world means a worldly phenomenon, both psychological and physical. The phenomenon is described with such terms as situation or behavior. Human conception is a reality materialized on the basis of relative and hypothetical terms. No value units could ever be realized in absolute terms. If we want to define constituent units which materialize the alleged phenomenon and describe relative functions among them, there must be a function proposition relevant to the phenomenon. And if a function proposition is to be used in investigating object languages, then it must be an abstract META-FUNCTION PROPOSITION, META-LANGUAGE.