linguistic axioms

[Edith Moravcsik]

Regarding basic ideas that linguists do - or tend to - agree on, see also 
Richard Hudson's paper of 1981:

"Some issues on which linguistis can agree"
Journal of Linguistics 17, 333-343.

Edith Moravcsik

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From: "Ellen Contini-Morava" <elc9j at virginia.edu>
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> Re axioms:  There's Bloomfield's classic "A set of postulates for the 
> science of language", Language 2 (1926), pp. 153-64.  The main one, 
> slightly rephrased in his 1933 Language (p. 159):  "In a speech-community 
> some utterances are alike or partly alike in sound and meaning".  Though 
> some have questioned the assumption of a "shared code" (e.g. Roy Harris, 
> "On redefining linguistics". In Hayley Davis and Talbot Taylor (eds.), 
> Redefining Linguistics. London: Routledge 1990, pp. 18-52.)
>
> Happy new year,
>
> Ellen
>
>