On categorization : stick to the facts of the languages

• المؤلف الرئيسي: LaPolla, Randy J.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2020
• الموضوعات: Humanities::Linguistics; Categories; Comparison
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145435

This paper argues that in doing both description and comparison we should work inductively, staying true to the facts of the languages as manifested in natural data, and not resort to abstractions that lead to classifying languages or constructions in a way that ignores the actual facts of the langu...