Reading for M 11/29: Whitney (1998), Ch. 4 (pgs. 114-127) and Pullum (1989)

For Monday 11/29, please read pgs. 114-127 of the following book chapter, which can be downloaded from the Readings section of this website:

Whitney, Paul. 1998. The Psychology of Language, Chapter 4 (‘Theories of the Language-Thought Relationship’).

Also, please read the following (extremely short) article:

Pullum, Geoffrey K. 1989 The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 7: 275-281