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Linguistic Theory Is So Abstract, Maybe It’s Not Really A Science?

WORDS Posted: July 17, 2017 12:31 pm

“The nub of the disagreement here boils down to what exactly linguistics says about the world, and the appropriate archetypes we should apply to make it effective. So just what kinds of questions does linguistics want to answer? What counts as evidence? Is universal grammar in particular – and theoretical linguistics in general – a science at all?”

WORDS Published: 07.17.17

Read the story in Aeon Published: 07.17.17

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