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positivistic view of language



Alvin Kimel writes:

I'd still like to know what a "positivistic view of language" is.


Me too, and I'm a linguist (well, PhD candidate).  My adviser, Beth
Levin (a well-read lexical semanticist) didn't know either.  So if it's been
overthrown, it was a very quiet revolution from the linguistics perspective.


Mari Broman Olsen
Northwestern University
Department of Linguistics
2016 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

molsen@astrid.ling.nwu.edu
molsen@babel.ling.nwu.edu


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