Methodology in generative linguistics: scratching below the surface

Methodology in generative linguistics: scratching below the surface

This paper examines some methodological issues of contemporary linguistics from three general standpoints. A macro-level view sketches general, broad outlines of a technique. While this is the most common form of methodological discussion – by philosophers and linguists, including those of the ‘‘biolinguistic’’ persuasion – it is of limited use. In contrast, a micro-level perspective emphasizes...

Early generative linguistics and empirical methodology

Scratching Below the Surface: Mathematics through an Alternative Digital Lens?

A key element in the examination of how students process mathematics through digital technologies is considering the ways that digital pedagogical media might influence the learning process. How might students’ understanding emerge through engagement in a digital-learning environment? Interactive software that has cross-curricula implications and facilitates thinking in rich, problem-solving en...

Barely Scratching the Surface

I tching or pruritus is an unpleasant sensation that evokes the desire or reflex to scratch. Itching in people with diabetes for the most part suggests a skin condition such as psoriasis, eczema, sunburn, athlete’s foot, hidradenitis suppurativa, pruritus vulvae from monilial infections, xerosis and diabetic eczema, necrobiosis diabeticorum, allergies to medications, drug eruptions, and many ot...

Scratching the Bose surface.

Particles known as fermions (such as electrons) obey the Pauli exclusion principle, which decrees that only a single fermion can occupy a particular state, such as an orbital in an atom. But the second family of particles, bosons (such as helium atoms), have no corresponding restrictions on their occupation of states. This distinction in their individual properties also carries over to the coll...