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Fernandez-Guizzetti, German. 1978. Linguistic anthropology and the innatist fallacy. In McCormack, William C. and Stephen A. Wurm, eds. Approaches to language: Anthropological issues. Mouton. pp. 371–388.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
anthropology | deep structure | innateness | linguistics | psychology | universal grammar

Annotation

In an attempt to refute the innatist fallacy, F. examines (i) the meaning of the difference between surface structure and deep structure, (ii) the meaning of the term 'universal grammar', and (iii) the impossibility of conceiving of linguistics as a psychological science.