02/01/2024
For our journal (Linguistics), the start into the New Year couldn't have been better, with a new article by Martin Haspelmath appearing ahead-of-print (and, of course, Open Access). Martin argues that "there is no clear basis in the phenomena of languages for an architectural distinction between inflection and derivation", nonetheless proposing (retro-)definitions "[f]or practical purposes". The paper has a more general dimension: To what extent are our views of language shaped by (mostly Western) grammatical traditions (and, hence, the languages described in these traditions)? And are our tools of describing and comparing languages just that -- tools -- or do they have direct correlates in our mental representations of linguistic knowledge?
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