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Preterite peter-out: How the end beginned

J

Science

Anon:

Linguistics is a science. It's based on empirical methods, just as this study was. It is based around concrete measurements of observable things. That fact that languages are created by humans is neither here nor there. It's as scientific as archeology or psychology.

http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/main/about.shtml