Language rules and language ecology

Mark Garner

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2013.08.012

Language rules and language ecology

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Abstract

A growing theoretical and research literature is challenging the presupposition, common to both 'descriptive' and 'prescriptive' linguistics, that rules are constitutive of language. This paper briefly surveys some of the arguments, and adopts a position

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	111-121
Journal	LANGUAGE SCIENCES
Volume	41
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2013.08.012
Publication status	Published - 2014

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