Abstract
Construction grammar and the Minimalist Program occupy opposite, but equally polar, positions in the pre-scientific setting of studies that attempt to scientifically unravel the make-up of human languages. Both schools share a basic flaw. They favour outdated and inadequate strategies, primarily based on unscientific ideological preconceptions. Construction Grammar is – against better judgment – entangled in the quandaries of functional accounts that biology has conclusively found to be fatal for any scientific progress already a century ago. The MP has turned into a self-centred activity of playful tinkering with syntactic calculi, in a gated community that would let in nothing but hand-picked evidence. These two schools have lost their scientific orientation but their marketing is still superb. This paper is a 'profit warning' for young linguists. Investments into these companies are going to be investments à fonds perdu in the long run.
Originalsprache | Deutsch |
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Titel | Grammatiktheorie und Empirie in der germanistischen Linguistik |
Redakteure/-innen | Angelika Wöllstein, Peter Gallmann, Mechthild Habermann, Manfred Krifka |
Herausgeber (Verlag) | DeGruyter |
Seiten | 47-92 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-11-049099-2 |
DOIs | |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 2018 |
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