Abstract
Integrational Linguistics (IL) is a general, non-generative approach to linguistics that aims at providing a comprehensive theoretical framework for the description of arbitrary languages as well as for contrastive linguistics, linguistic typology, and universals research. IL has developed a general theory of language that covers both the systematic features of language systems and the phenomenon of language variability, and a theory of grammars, understood as part of a theory of linguistic descriptions. From the outset, IL was to account for the full spectrum of linguistic diversity, and all levels of grammatical description (from phonetics to sentence semantics) were to be integrated. IL strives for ontological explicitness and logical consistency for all its theories.
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