000118248 001__ 118248 000118248 005__ 20230519145407.0 000118248 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1515/tl-2021-2008 000118248 0248_ $$2sideral$$a124885 000118248 037__ $$aART-2021-124885 000118248 041__ $$aeng 000118248 100__ $$aMendívil Giró, José Luis 000118248 245__ $$aOn the innate building blocks of language and scientific explanation 000118248 260__ $$c2021 000118248 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000118248 5203_ $$aAlthough Haspelmath’s target article does not explicitly say it, the conception oflanguages (and of linguistics as a science) that the author presents is the same asthe one found in Saussure’sCours de linguistique generale(Saussure 1916): Lan-guages are social constructs and linguistics is a social science.1This view is notdemonstrably wrong in and of itself, but I do believe that it is an incomplete andinsufficient foundation on which to build a comprehensive science of language.By establishing a Saussurean notion of languages, Haspelmath effectivelyhints that the naturalistic and internalist conception of language developed bygenerative grammar (GG) does not represent progress in the evolution of ourdiscipline. I will argue here that Haspelmath’s assessment of GG is inadequate,because it is based on a misconception of the scientific nature of GG and of theassumptions under which it operates. 000118248 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P 000118248 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aAll rights reserved$$uhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 000118248 590__ $$a1.455$$b2021 000118248 591__ $$aLINGUISTICS$$b91 / 195 = 0.467$$c2021$$dQ2$$eT2 000118248 592__ $$a0.36$$b2021 000118248 593__ $$aLinguistics and Language$$c2021$$dQ1 000118248 594__ $$a1.2$$b2021 000118248 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000118248 773__ $$g47, 1-2 (2021), 85-94$$pTHEORETICAL LINGUISTICS$$tTHEORETICAL LINGUISTICS$$x0301-4428 000118248 8564_ $$s216888$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/118248/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000118248 8564_ $$s1401490$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/118248/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000118248 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:118248$$particulos$$pdriver 000118248 951__ $$a2023-05-18-13:50:21 000118248 980__ $$aARTICLE