Christopher Hutton
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher Hutton plays a role.
2019 Form and Formalism in Linguistics. Ed. by James McElvenny Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 192–197 | Review
2019 Lost in the hall of mirrors: The linguistics of Aryan as a knowledge domain in colonial and postcolonial India Language, Culture and Society 1:1, pp. 8–30 | Article
The category Aryan and the paradigm of ideas associated with it remains highly controversial in contemporary India, and the history, status, and impact of this concept are contested at many levels. This paper starts with the assumption that the genesis of this concept lies in Western linguistic… read more
2010 Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics: The first ‘superhominid’ and the language faculty Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 337–352 | Article
Chomskyan linguistics is defined by its commitment to universalism and to belief in the existence of a shared species-wide language faculty grounded in human biology. The claim is that all human beings are linguistically one, and that human unity is the product of biological endowment. This paper… read more
2001 Cultural and Conceptual Relativism, Universalism and the Politics of Linguistics: Dilemmas of a would-be progressive Linguistics Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches, Dirven, René †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu (eds.), pp. 277–296 | Article