According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics, linguistics is a science. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Scientific_method, science requires experimentation. For your entertainment, what's wrong with these papers about bare plurals?:
http://people.umass.edu/partee/docs/Dependent_Plurals_Partee.pdf http://www.salt17.uconn.edu/Cohen.pdf http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/TkxY2YzN/BPs.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.11.6511&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/Talks/GenericitySeattle.ho.pdf http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/conferences/sub7/abstracts/sub7_filip.pdf http://linguistics.huji.ac.il/IATL/22/Zweig.pdf http://dstmte.net/teaching/ling535_fall2004/material/kinds.pdf http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ez255/downloads/IATL_dependent_plurals_handout.pdf The authors of these papers do not report any experimentation, therefore, these studies are not science. I found only one paper with an experiment: http://mercury.hau.ac.kr/kggc/Publications/SIGG/SIGG12/SIGG12201_HKKang.pdf but it is flawed in some other ways. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
