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The descriptivist and performatives (again)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Willis J. Edmondson
Willis J. Edmondson
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Taylor and Wolf (1981) seek to show that Edmondson (1979) makes the position of the descriptivist ‘if anything, worse’, and that the dilemma for the descriptivist posed by Harris (1978) is ‘inescapable’. The authors seek to facilitate discussion by analysing my theory ‘rather more clearly’ than I managed to myself, and in doing so establish that its claims are ‘either contradictory or absurd’ (329).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 183 - 185
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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