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The ‘Galilean Style in Science’ and the Inconsistency of Linguistic Theorising [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Chomsky’s principle of epistemological tolerance says that in theoretical linguistics contradictions between the data and the hypotheses may be temporarily tolerated in order to protect the explanatory power of the theory.
A. Kertész   +35 more
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Constructing a second language: some final thoughts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
All the papers in this special section address issues central to cognitive linguistics research: usage-based models with their focus on frequency; multi-word units and the relationship between lexical and grammatical knowledge; and the nature of lexical ...
Ewa Dąbrowska   +1 more
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Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2023
Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world.
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
doaj   +1 more source

Intralingual Variation in Acceptability Judgments and Production: Three Case Studies in Russian Grammar

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This paper contributes to the task of defining the relationship between the results of production and rating experiments in the context of language variation.
Anastasia Gerasimova   +3 more
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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
Agha   +112 more
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Automatic Language Identification in Code-Switched Hindi-English Social Media Text

open access: yesJournal of Open Humanities Data, 2021
Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools typically struggle to process code-switched data and so linguists are commonly forced to annotate such data manually.
Li Nguyen   +3 more
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Information structure development: Evidence from the acquisition of word order in Russian and English

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2005
The present paper aims at shedding some light onto the nature of the early child grammar. It is claimed that children do not operate with pure syntactic structures but also have access to pragmatics.
Marina Dyakonova
doaj   +1 more source

Eventualities and different things : a reply [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
“Comments are very welcome!” This basic attitude and the many ways of implementing it contribute immensely to the fascination of engaging in scientific research.
Maienborn, Claudia
core   +1 more source

Some Remaining Problems for Fictional File Theory. A Short Reply to Eleonora Orlando

open access: yesESPES, 2021
Mental file theory has recently attracted growing interest among philosophers of mind and philosophers of language. Some experts are of the opinion that the insights of file theory may also be helpful in understanding the problems of fictionality ...
Zoltán Vecsey
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Person Agreement with Anaphors: Evidence from Tatar

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
In this paper, I present evidence for variable agreement with anaphors in Tatar. I show that inflected reflexives trigger co-varying person agreement as DP/nominalization subjects and as complements of postpositions, which appears to contradict the ...
Ekaterina Lyutikova
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