23 juin 2019
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Martin Haspelmath, « Confusing p-linguistics and g-linguistics: Philosopher Ludlow on “framework-free theory” », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nsv2
This post was prompted by a recent paper by Peter Ludlow (a Michigan/Illinois-based philosopher) on “the philosophy of generative linguistics” (2019), where he targets a 2010 paper of mine for criticism, and (quite flatteringly) pits me against Darwin. But he confuses general linguistic theory with language-particular theory, and as this confusion seems to be more widespread, it probably deserves some discussion. Particular languages (p-languages) are immediately observable, in the sense tha...