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38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)

Oct 14, 2021

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Do You Have a Genealist Mind?

02:33

The Language of the Future - A Review

01:28

How Does Generative Ism Help Your Work?

03:01

Introduction

2min

The School of Linguistic Thought

2min

What I'm Currently Doing Is a Research Program in Linguistic Theory and Documentation

2min

How Did You Find That Acceptance and Space in the Community?

2min

I Love Giving It and I Love Being an Advocate

2min

What's the Difference Between Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics?

2min

Is There a Relationship Between Language Comparison and Documentary Documentation?

2min

Is Hedwig's Partner on the Podcast?

2min

How Many Languages Have There Ever Been?

2min

10.

Is There a Language?

2min

11.

How Many Languages Are There Today?

1min

12.

3.4 Million Different Languages

5min

13.

The Relationship Between Art and Performance

2min

14.

Grammar Is a Feeling

2min

15.

How Do They Calculate Distance From Each Other With Musical Features?

2min

16.

The Language of the Future - A Review

1min

17.

What's Up With Spectacular Vernacular?

2min

18.

Generatism and Generative Linguistics

1min

19.

Is There a Difference Between Possible and Impossible?

2min

20.

Generatism and the Origins of Language, Right?

3min

21.

Why Do We Need to Study Language to Answer the Big Question of Where Does Language Come From?

2min

22.

I'm a Dirty Generativeist, Right?

2min

23.

Is Universal Grammar Really a Real Thing?

2min

24.

How Much Does This Affect You?

2min

25.

The Difference Between Functionalist and Functionalist in Language Acquisition

2min

26.

The Confusion of Functional Grammar and Head Driven Phrase Structure

2min

27.

The Unfalsifiability of Poly Synthetic Languages

2min

28.

Polysynthetic Languages

3min

29.

The Future of Linguistics

2min

30.

What Is Falsifiability?

2min

31.

Why Do We Never See X, Y, Z?

2min

32.

Do You Have Counter Evidence for That?

2min

33.

What's the Difference Between Syntax and Phonology Syntax?

3min

34.

I Love the Big Questions

2min

35.

How Does Generative Ism Help Your Work?

3min

36.

Language Without Context - Is That a Good Idea?

2min

37.

Do You Have a Genealist Mind?

3min

38.

The Coalition on Restorative Linguistics

3min

39.

What Does Linguistic Theory Have in Your Day-to-Day Research?

2min

40.

Is the Theory Corroborated?

1min

41.

Is There Theory-Neutral Research in Linguistics?

2min

42.

The Future of Linguistic Theory?

2min

43.

I Think It Is a Lesser Conflict in Our Generation of Researchers

2min

44.

The Backlash to the Open Letter to the LSA

2min

45.

The History of Linguistics

2min

46.

The Job Market in Applied Linguistics Is Increasing, Right?

2min

47.

Are We Going to Remember What the Older Generation Has Been Saying?

2min

48.

Word of the Week: Out of Pocket

2min

49.

Are You Out of Pocket?

2min

50.

What's Out of Pocket?

2min

51.

The Epistemic Trespasser Is the Gatekeeper

2min

52.

Mill House From the Simpsons

2min

53.

Masquerading as Someone Else

2min

54.

Is There a Racist Dick in the Workplace?

2min

55.

How Many Calls Are You Making?

1min

56.

Stalkerware

2min

57.

I Hate Vomiting

2min

58.

I Don't Know if It's a Green Out or Not.

2min

59.

What's Scrummiting?

2min

60.

Is There a Word for Cry-Turbating?

2min

61.

How to Help the Podcast on Patreon

3min

This is the second of a two-parter on generativism, the linguistic school of thought originated by Noam Chomsky. This time, it's from the perspective of early-career researchers. How is generativism relevant to them, and how do they regard its claims?

We ask:

What importance does linguistic theory have on day-to-day research?
How does generativism relate to nativism, the idea that at least some language is innate?
Is there a conflict between generativism and functionalism today?
What's the next step in the generative enterprise?