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Philological coda. Noise: an appreciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2017

ROBERT D. FULK
ROBERT D. FULK*
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Department of English, Indiana University Bloomington, Ballantine Hall 415, 1020 East Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7103, USAfulk@indiana.edu
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Plainly, the effort to apply to historical language study the insights to be derived from synchronic linguistic analysis is fraught with difficulties. The problem is usually conceptualized – as it is by several of the contributors to the present collection of studies – as a difficult marriage of disciplined methods to obstreperous data, a mismatched union somehow to be mediated by the Uniformitarian Principle. To understand the issues properly, then, it would seem a prerequisite to be able to identify what, exactly, the Uniformitarian Principle is. Yet that question itself has no simple answer, in part because the question can be interpreted in at least two ways, both of them bearing directly upon the aims of this collection.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 21 , Special Issue 2: Cognitive approaches to the history of English , July 2017 , pp. 431 - 438
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