Why should we bother about terminology in linguistics?

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20 septembre 2017

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Martin Haspelmath, « Why should we bother about terminology in linguistics? », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10670/1.dffkzn


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Those who know me better will be aware that I keep insisting on careful use of terminology in linguistics, especially in grammar (my main area of research), but also in other areas – for example, I often point out that it’s very problematic to use the term borrowing only for cases of copying (of words and other features from a donor language) that were NOT due to imperfect learning of a second language (i.e. substrate effects). The reason is that we need a general term for all kinds of copyin...

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