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Limiting the arbitrary linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language

The idea that some aspects of language are 'natural', while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky's GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg's search for linguistic universals, Pinker's views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato's dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments i.

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  • "The idea that some aspects of language are 'natural', while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky's GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg's search for linguistic universals, Pinker's views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato's dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments i."@en

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  • "Limiting the arbitray : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language"
  • "Limiting the arbitrary linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language"
  • "Limiting the arbitrary linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language"@en
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language"@en
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language"
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's "Cratylus" and modern theories of language"
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and the modern theories of language"
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and the modern theories of language"@en
  • "Limiting the arbitrary : linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Platoʼs Cratylus and modern theories of language"

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