[Corpora-List] Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics withR'--re Louw's endorsement

[Emiliano Guevara]

Dear all,

I'm sorry to bump into this thread (called "duologue" by Yorick Wilks),
but there's quite a lot of statements that don't seem to be on the
right track... and I could not resist the temptation.

On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Wolfgang Teubert wrote:

> Cognitive linguistics, and particularly its illegitimate offspring,  
> NLP, however, seemed ideal to uphold  the claim to scientificity.  
> Indeed the starting point of the cognitive sciences was the  
> computational theory of the mind.


First, nothing (or very little) in NLP seems to point to Cognitive  
Linguistics.
Rather, the link is with a choice of approaches to language stemming  
from
the generative tradition, mostly LFG and HPSG.

Second, the fact that the approach known as Cognitive Linguistics is
termed "cognitive" does not make it any more cognitive or scientific
than other, even more successful, approaches to language.
In fact, to date, the most developed theory of the computational  
processes
that take place "in the mind" is the Chomskyan Principles and  
Parameters /
Minimalist Program, like it or not.

My two cents.

Cheers,

E.



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Emiliano R. Guevara
Facoltà di Lingue e Lett. Straniere
Dipart. di Lingue e Lett. Straniere
Università di Bologna
Via Cartoleria 5 (40124) Bologna, Italia
   http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/
   emiliano.guevara at unibo.it
   emiguevara at gmail.com
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