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The philosophy of linguistics deals with philosophical issues arising in connection with the discipline of
linguistics. It covers a wide variety of topics, including: (a) ontological issues, such as the nature of
languages and of related entities (e.g. sentences and words), as well the proper characterization of the
subject matter of the discipline; (b) epistemological issues, such as the nature and scope of a speaker's
knowledge of her language; (c) methodological issues concerning the goals of theorization and the nature
of linguistic explanation, the appropriate roles of abstraction and idealization, the import of the
competence/performance distinction, and the kinds of data that may justify linguistic hypotheses.
Key works Chapter 1 of Chomsky 1965 contains a seminal
discussion of methodological and epistemological
issues, such as the competence-performance
distinction, the connection between explanatory
adequacy and language acquisition, the place of
intuitions/judgments as a source of evidence and
the nature and role of abstraction and idealization
in theorization.
Chomsky 1980 has Chomsky's replies to criticisms

posed by philosophers (among others), including
worries about innateness and about the
"psychological reality" of the posits of linguistic
theory.
Chomsky 1986 is the locus classicus for the

distinction between I-Language and E-Language,
and it also presents a very influential (and
controversial) characterization of linguistics as a
"branch of cognitive psychology".
Katz 1980 is a sustained critique of the Chomskyan
perspective, and offers an alternative, Platonic
conception of linguistics as a non-empirical, formal
discipline. Soames 1984 and Higginbotham 1983,
respectively, seek to combine an empirical view of
linguistic research with a Platonic ontology of its
subject matter.
Katz 1985 is the first collection of papers to bear

the title "Philosophy of Linguistics", and it features
many of the early key works. George 1989 includes
several influential papers dealing with the ontology
and epistemology of linguistics—notably George
1989 and Peacocke 1989.
Devitt 2006 is an attack on several aspects of the
Chomskyan conception, such as the "psychological"
view of linguistics and what Devitt calls the
"Cartesian view" of linguistic intuitions.
Ludlow 2011 is one of the most recent monograph-

length treatments of the topics mentioned above,
and also contains discussions of issues such as
normativity and rule-following, simplicity and
formalization, and the externalist-internalist debate
in semantics and in syntax.
Introductions Pelletier 2000, Ludlow 1998
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Formal Semantics (292)
Generative Semantics (16)
Lexical Semantics (135)
Semantic Phenomena* (1,246 | 207)
Semantic Theories* (1,602 | 528)
Specific Expressions* (8,737 | 241)
Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction* (386)
Semantics, Misc (94)
Other Areas of Linguistics (880 | 477)
Computational Linguistics (54)
Historical Linguistics (53)
Natural Language Processing* (31)
Phonology (49)
Pragmatics* (5,580 | 249)
Psycholinguistics (188)
Sociolinguistics (34)
Other Areas of Linguistics, Misc (25)
Methodology of Linguistics (429 | 37)
Competence and Performance (33)
Linguistic Intuitions (72)

Prescriptivism and Descriptivism (3)
Psychological Reality in Linguistics (111)
Methodology of Linguistics, Misc (173)
Philosophy of Linguistics, Miscellaneous (874 | 447)
Knowledge of Language* (613 | 601)
Linguistic Innateness* (95 | 58)
The Status of Linguistic Theories (149)
Language Acquisition (93)
Philosophy of Linguistics, Misc (185)
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The philosophy of linguistics deals with philosophical issues arising in connection with the discipline of

Chomsky 1980 has Chomsky's replies to criticisms

Chomsky 1986 is the locus classicus for the

Katz 1985 is the first collection of papers to bear

Ludlow 2011 is one of the most recent monograph-

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Syntax* (891 | 334)

Semantics (3,734 | 3,197)

Formal Semantics (292)

Generative Semantics (16)

Lexical Semantics (135)

Semantic Phenomena* (1,246 | 207)

Semantic Theories* (1,602 | 528)

Specific Expressions* (8,737 | 241)

Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction* (386)

Semantics, Misc (94)

Other Areas of Linguistics (880 | 477)

Computational Linguistics (54)

Historical Linguistics (53)

Natural Language Processing* (31)

Pragmatics* (5,580 | 249)

Other Areas of Linguistics, Misc (25)

Methodology of Linguistics (429 | 37)

Competence and Performance (33)

Linguistic Intuitions (72)

Psychological Reality in Linguistics (111)

Methodology of Linguistics, Misc (173)

Philosophy of Linguistics, Miscellaneous (874 | 447)

Knowledge of Language* (613 | 601)

Linguistic Innateness* (95 | 58)

The Status of Linguistic Theories (149)

Language Acquisition (93)

Philosophy of Linguistics, Misc (185)

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