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 Warl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pesetsky, David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge University Press 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52701
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-9230