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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear Corpora colleagues, Do you think
LINGUISTICS is SCIENCE or ARTS? I think the discussion about linguistics
using either the scientific or artistic methods, is quite interesting.
Really, is it ARTS (the Humanities) or Science. If we divide this man
activity into Sciences and Arts, then linguistics for the exception of phonetics
is Arts. Can linguistics reconstruct some parent language? We know that all
the Romance languages have the parent language, i.e. Latin. But can linguists
reconstruct Latin on the basis of Italian, Spanish, French and other Romance
languages? The answer is NO. If linguistics had been SCience, then it would have
been possible. But it is ARTS, thus it is impossible. Or am I mistaken? Looking
forward to hearing from you either directly <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> or via the net. Be well, Yuri
Tambovtsev </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>