A Festschrift for Native Speaker

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Preface Contents Introduction: The Concept of Native Speaker Part One. Epistemology and History of Linguistics The Struggle for a Theory of Native Speaker A Typology of Native Speakers “Right or Wrong, My Native Speaker” Estant les Régestes du Noble Souverain de l’Empirie Linguistic avec un Renvoy au Mesme Roy Wherein Lies ‘Talked-About’ Reality? Minimal Speakers, Necessary Speech Acts Part Two. Methodology Introspection and the Description of Language Use The Concept of Linguistic Intuition Quine on Introspection in Linguistics Native Speaker’s Heritage. On Philology of “Dead” Languages Part Three. Field Work: Techniques and Ethics Informants or Colleagues? Malinche, Patron-Saint of Informants? A Minimum Morale on how not to Listen to the Native Speaker Part Four. Grammar: The Structure of Inquiry Parallel Structure and “The Failure of Modern Linguistics” The Interpretation of Ungrammatical Utterances What Does a Native Speaker Know about the Verb KILL? On the Precariousness of Linguistic Introspection The Native Speaker and Indeterminacy Linguistic Strategies Part Five. Aspects of Language Acquisition and Use The Native Speaker in his New Found Body Observing the Native Doer: Prelinguistic Behavior among Infants and Young Children How to Become a Native Speaker: One Simple Way Spies and Native Speakers On Translatability The Literate Native Speaker: Some Intellectual Consequences of the Language of Schooling List of Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects