Research Methods in Armchair Linguistics
Charles Reiss
April 2025 

Universal Grammar is usefully viewed as a postulate that allows empirical work to proceed. I describe eleven overlapping Empirical Argumentation Devices that theoretical linguists use, often tacitly. Latest version adds a discussion (Section 2) on scepticism of some scholars towards the strict I-language approach.

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Published in:	Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics
keywords:	universal grammar, philosophy of linguistics, syntax, phonology
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