Emmon Bach on old chestnuts and real languages

Emmon Bach, “A Chrestomathy of Chestnuts”:http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ebach/papers/chestnut.htm. 111 pronoun puzzles from 1977.

bq. handout from a talk at Stanford, during the year I spent at Casbah (Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences). I think it was at a workshop for philosophers and linguists, organized by J. Moravcsik. The philosophers were apalled at the number of examples.

Emmon Bach, Structure and Texture: Toward an Understanding of Real Languages. Paper presented at WECOL 2002, UBC.

bq. About: the tensions between the inner and outer view of R-languages (“real languages”), the language-centered and theory-centered study of languages, the (often foreign) linguist and the (sometimes linguist) native speaker, description and theory, a language as a set of choices and extensions of universal grammar and as a concrete realization in a particular culture and history. The materials for this paper are drawn mostly from First Nations languages, especially those of the Pacific Northwest.

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