When even at major linguistics conferences the program contains presentation [s] such as “A
short tour through the minefield of linguistic terminology,” one should realize that this state of …

Linguistics concerns itself in principle with any kind of evidence that seems capable of
informing us about the human language faculty, though individual researchers may find …

Linguistics and psychology have always had a curious relationship. Ever since the early
days of generative linguistics when Chomsky started to argue that linguistics was a subfield …

Those of us who study language believe that linguistics, like other behavioral sciences (the
French sciences humaines captures the nature of the disciplines), is an objective, data …

In the present paper, I contrast empirical and non-empirical approaches to linguistics by
examining the extent to which they practice the scientific method. I provide examples of …

According to Noam Chomsky's well-known and influential account, linguis-tics is properly
conceived ofas a branch of cognitive psychology. Linguistics studies one aspect of the mind …

The essays in this volume are designed to reveal why language holds a special place in
cognitive science.... Most authors raise a fundamental question and then try to answer it by …

This book is a collection of 10 papers that appeared in Cognitive Linguistics over the years
2008 to 2012, together with an introductory article by the editor, Laura A. Janda. The …

It is a common understanding among linguists that we are engaged in the general study of
the structure of language, not gathering particular facts about languages; our aim is to …

Imagine yourself as a field researcher sent to Africa to study lion colonies. The savannah
can be treacherous in its monotony. Inching forward through the tall grasses you suddenly …