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My modest aim in this note is to sketch three interrelated critiques of public languages, and to respond to them. All are broadly Chomskyan, and all support the same conclusion: that, insofar as they even exist, the study of public languages is not a viable scientific project. (Related critiques of semantics, understood as involving word–world relations, will be touched on as well).
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Stainton, R.J. In defense of public languages. Linguist and Philos 34, 479–488 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-011-9104-7
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