Carr, Philip, 1953-

Linguistic realities : an autonomist metatheory for the generative enterprise / Philip Carr. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - ix, 157 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 53 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-155) and index.

Introduction; Part I. The Methodological Question: 1. The case for realism; 2. A realist philosophy of linguistics; 3. Instrumentalism in linguistics; Part II. The Ontological Question: 4. Linguistic objects as psychological realities; 5. Linguistic objects as social realities; 6. Linguistic objects as abstract objective realities; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; Index.

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