Presidents' Inaugural Lectures
Old Linguistics and New Linguistics
2023 年 Supplement.3 巻 p. 109-120
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2023 年 Supplement.3 巻 p. 109-120
In the history of linguistics, several revolutionary developments in methodology have occurred, including comparative grammar versus philology, synchronic linguistics versus historical linguistics, phonology versus phonetics, generative transformational grammar versus structural linguistics, etc. It is a peculiar characteristic of linguistics, however, that the new does not completely invalidate the old, and in the course of time the old and the new turn out to complement each other.
