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Posted on 2015/10/18 by Martin Haspelmath
A few months after their (2014) target article with comments from de Reuse, Dryer and me were published in the “Perspectives” section of Language, Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon and Lisa Matthewson have published their response (DGM 2015). Their original claim was that a UG-oriented approach is better suited to the discovery of linguistic diversity, in contrast to some of the claims made by Levinson & Evans (2010). In particular, they stressed the need for systematic hypothesis-testing, which turned out to be uncontroversial.
In my commentary (Haspelmath 2014b), I noted that the main difference between two types of approaches is not between “C-linguists” and “D-linguists” (a strange distinction that they adopt from Levinson & Evans and continue to use in their response), but between linguists whose main goal is the discovery of UG (i.e. continuing the Chomskyan tradition) and linguists who want to chart all the existing diversity and eventually explain it in whatever way may be appropriate (i.e. continuing the Boasian and Greenbergian traditions). [...]
Hey, Ive just seen your reblog on Chomsky. Can you (or someone) give more information on or redirect to refutations on universal grammar? (Recent graduate of TEFL here so all I learnt at school were at least 20yo theories.) Thanks!
Hi,maybe this article is a good starting point: How Noam Chomsky’s world works by David Hawkes
Then, of course, most writings by Daniel L. Everett and/or on Piraha are directly opposing Chomsky’s views.
*The* eulogy on UG, though, is The myth of language universals:Language diversity and itsimportance for cognitive science by Nicholas Evans and Stephen C. Levinson in BBS 32 (2009), 429-492.
See also: The linguistics wars
Hi I'm currently doing an essay on how language affects the culture (or viceversa) ,and I wanted to ask you if you could give me sources where I can read more about this. Thank you!
Hi, there is a lot of literature out there on that topic, sometimes under the name linguistic relativity.
A few “classics” are “The psychology of culture” and other works by Edward Sapir, “Language, Thought and Reality” and other works by Benjamin Lee Whorf. (Hence Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis)
More modern approaches can be found in the writings of Lera Boroditsky, Asifa Majid, John Lucy, Stephen Levinson and others.
