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Maybe if you're Danish (like Hartmut and Nigel), or were otherwise
raised in some small (and rich) European country, then understanding
many of these languages is kind of natural.<br>
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But somehow asking *all linguists* to be like this seems Eurocentric
to me. Korean/Chinese linguists (like Ian Joo) or African linguists
will simply not have the chance to encounter so many languages in
which other linguists have written relevant work. (In Africa, even
big languages like Hausa and Yoruba are rarely used for academic
purposes, it seems.)<br>
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On the other hand, it's also ethnocentric to only cite work by
American linguists and somehow assume that there is nothing else of
relevance.<br>
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So what's the solution? I think it must be (i) practical
universalism (only use English/Globish), combined with (ii)
awareness of the parochialism of English-language traditions.<br>
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As an example of the latter, consider the term "agreement": As I
realized only after reading Cysouw (2011)
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17668/1/thli.2011.011.pdf">https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17668/1/thli.2011.011.pdf</a>), this
term did not exist in linguistics before Bloomfield (1933), and the
relevant concepts didn't exist earlier either. Same with
"grammatical relation" (due to Chomsky 1965), "focus" (due to
Chomsky 1970), and quite a few other terms. Natural as these terms
seem to us, they may not be the results of scientific discoveries
that we made, but mostly due to the spread of the English language
(and the influence of a few linguists working at rich U.S.
universities).<br>
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Universalism and parochialism are in a certain tension, but I think
we really need to adopt both at the same time if we want to progress
in our scientific understanding of language(s).<br>
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Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 26.06.20 um 11:22 schrieb Hartmut
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lang="FR">Et si l'article porte sur le grec moderne, il doit
souvent se référer à la tradition grammaticale grecque
(Tzartzanos) ou française (Roussel, Mirambel).
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lang="EN-US">Restricting oneself to discourses in
<i>one</i> language is myopic. Most linguists really need to
read more than just two or three languages to keep up with
the relevant literature, but how many do?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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its first issue contained papers in German, French and
English. Today, it still calls itself an ‘international
journal’, but now practically all papers are in English,
with very few exceptions. However, if you take a random
issue (51(1), May 2019), apart from one paper specifically
dealing with English, there are references to literature in
German, French, Greek, Norwegian, and Swedish. So linguists
are at least not passively monolingual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>På vegne af </b>Nigel Vincent<br>
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<b>Til:</b> Wiemer, Bjoern <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:wiemerb@uni-mainz.de"><wiemerb@uni-mainz.de></a>;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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si l'article est sur une langue romane mais les références
jugées indispensables sont écrites en allemand ou en
danois … ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Wiemer, Bjoern <<a href="mailto:wiemerb@uni-mainz.de"
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<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Gilles Authier<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 26. Juni 2020 09:35<br>
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<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] languages of scholarship</span><span
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="DE">Si l'article est sur
une langue romane et que les références jugées
indispensables sont écrites dans une langue romane, il
me semblerait devoir être rejeté, oui.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2020 at 7:52 AM Nigel Vincent <<a
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lang="DE">A related question to Ian's that I
have sometimes thought about concerns the
languages a researcher should be able to read in
order to access relevant scholarship. Should,
for example, a paper be rejected or revisions
asked for if someone writing in English on a
general linguistic topic has not cited relevant
work written in a language other than English?</span><span
lang="DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Nigel Vincent, FBA MAE<br>
Professor Emeritus of
General & Romance
Linguistics<br>
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