Introduction “The linguistic facts of life” (Lippi-Green): How do linguists approach language? Linguists concerned with the relationship between structured variation in language and social identity chide both syntacticians and cognitive grammarians for what they see as unreasonable abstractions and lack of reproducible results. Phoneticians go about their business of understanding and theorizing the way humans produce and perceive sound Historical linguists concern themselves with the written…
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