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...
Main Author: | Pesetsky, David (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2010-03-18T13:28:49Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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