"Scientific" Genealogy-Rejoinder, No. 2

No nouns, no verbs? A rejoinder to Panagiotidis

In response to Panagiotidis’ objections (Panagiotidis, 2005) to Barner and Bale (2002), we review the questions of overgeneration and predictability of meaning with regards to narrow syntactic explanations of noun-verb innovation (and specifically the case of non-lexicalist theories of grammar). Regarding overgeneration, it is argued that syntactic proposals, whether lexicalist or non-lexicalis...

A rejoinder to King 2 March 1999

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...

A rejoinder to King 2 March

King (1999) has replied to our review of his book. After summarizing the issues, we will respond to the main points and a few of the minor ones. The book proposes a method for ecological inference and makes sweeping claims about its validity. According to King, his model provides realistic estimates of uncertainty, with diagnostics capable of detecting failures in assumptions. He also claims th...

Rejoinder

We thank the editor Professor David Steinberg for organizing this stimulating discussion. We are also grateful to all the discussants for their constructive comments about the method proposed in our paper (denoted as QZW hereafter). Profile monitoring is a relatively new research area; but, it has a profound application background (cf., Wang and Tsung 2005, Woodall et al. 2004). Due to the fact...

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