Research Methods in Armchair Linguistics
Charles Reiss
September 2023 

Universal Grammar is usefully viewed as a postulate that allows empirical work to proceed. I describe nine overlapping Empirical Argumentation Devices that theoretical linguists use, often tacitly.

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