Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value"
Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them. I argue, with evidence from Tlingit and Warlpi...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/52701 2023-06-11T04:17:20+02:00 Against Taking Linguistic Diversity at "Face Value" Pesetsky, David Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Pesetsky, David 2009-10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52701 en_US eng Cambridge University Press http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x09990562 Behavioral and Brain Sciences 0140-525X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52701 orcid:0000-0003-1530-9230 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ author/dept web page Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalItem 2009 ftmit https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x09990562 2023-05-29T08:25:05Z Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them. I argue, with evidence from Tlingit and Warlpiri, that E&L's list itself should not be taken at face value — and that the actual research record already demonstrates unity amidst diversity. Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32 5 464 465 |
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Evans & Levinson (E&L)advocate taking linguistic diversity at "face value". Their argument consists of a list of diverse phenomena, and the assertion that no non-vacuous theory could possibly uncover a meaningful unity underlying them. I argue, with evidence from Tlingit and Warlpiri, that E&L's list itself should not be taken at face value — and that the actual research record already demonstrates unity amidst diversity. |
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