This collection of essays is conceed with syntactic questions,
with certain general
features of grammatical theory related to syntax, here and there with semantic
issues, and quite a bit with questions of appropriate standards in pursuing research
in the previously mentioned domains. It has almost nothing to say about phonology.
The immediately following remarks are to be interpreted against the background of
this restricted understanding of what ‘linguistic’ is here intended to denote.
A prospective reader might ask what is a skeptical linguistic essay? I would
answer that it is one based on a deep and long-standing view that much nonetheless
prestigious current linguistics has in fact made very restricted descriptive and explanatory
progress and, in some areas where great things have been claimed, no real
substantive progress at all.
features of grammatical theory related to syntax, here and there with semantic
issues, and quite a bit with questions of appropriate standards in pursuing research
in the previously mentioned domains. It has almost nothing to say about phonology.
The immediately following remarks are to be interpreted against the background of
this restricted understanding of what ‘linguistic’ is here intended to denote.
A prospective reader might ask what is a skeptical linguistic essay? I would
answer that it is one based on a deep and long-standing view that much nonetheless
prestigious current linguistics has in fact made very restricted descriptive and explanatory
progress and, in some areas where great things have been claimed, no real
substantive progress at all.