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Some reflections on the uses and abuses of theory in linguistic thought

Posted on 12 April 2018 by The Editor — Leave a comment

Jon Orman My purpose in this piece is to offer a few brief thoughts on a series of questions with which I have become increasingly interested in recent months. Linguistics, it seems to me, is awash with theories and theoretical…

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