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