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Section 7 · 39 answers
Theory, terminology and disciplinary question
- How old is linguistics as a discipline?
- Question re connection between language and knowledge
- Can you give some examples of counter-intuitive phenomena discovered by linguists?
- Is Language infinite?
- Any difference between natural and programming languages?
- Does structural linguistics still have relevance today?
- What's the use of Grammar?
- Why does there seem to be so much disagreement among linguists?
- Is a formal grammar of a formal language a formal language?
- Universal "grammar" for mathematics
- What are the different approaches of the levels of language analysis as introduced in structural linguistics?
- Is the semantic component of a generative grammar especially difficult to incorporate in psycholinguistic proccessing models?
- Is there an accepted objective criterion of "grammaticality"?
- Is linguistics limited to natural languages?
- Is a sentence's deep structure representative of i-language?
- How to solve 48÷2(9+3) from a linguistics perspective?
- Short summary of Cognitive Linguistics
- Is music a language?
- What's the difference between structural and generative linguistics?
- Origin of Language as Commands?
- Which comes first? Grammar or language?
- Where did generative semantics go wrong? Why was their conception of language faulty?
- Why should cognitive semantics and formal semantics co-exist?
- Functionalism vs Formalism?
- What are the blanket or general terms representing these linguistic pitfalls?
- Name of theory stating "worldview affects language structure"
- Does majority of linguists accept universal grammar?
- Icon, Index and Symbol
- Do animals have foreign languages?
- Is "sentence" a useful and/or clearly-defined term in linguistics
- How does the term "naturalistic speech" differ from "natural language"
- Which famous linguists embrace historical logic to understand language?
- What is the current status of (systemic) functional grammar/linguistics
- Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky
- A syntactician "must-read" list
- Characteristics of Theoretical Linguistics
- Linguistics relativity and linguistic determinism
- Which branch of linguistics educates on affirmation, causality, similarity, time, etc…?
- Can syntax be part of semantics?