The unsolved non-uniqueness problem and the dilemma of theoretical p-linguistics

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20 février 2024

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Martin Haspelmath, « The unsolved non-uniqueness problem and the dilemma of theoretical p-linguistics », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/vv9i

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Structural analyses of grammatical patterns are often non-unique, as was classically observed by Chao (1934): Different analyses often work equally well, to all appearances. This would not be a problem if linguists did not typically work with the background assumption that there is only one true analysis, which will lead us to deeper insights about Human Language in general. Some linguists do not make the uniqueness assumption (see below on the description-comparison approach), but among qua...

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