Empiricism and linguistics in eighteenth
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Patrice Bergheaud
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Article
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1985
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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This paper aims at specifying the complex links which two major and polemically related lgth-eentury linguistic theories (James Harris' universal grammar in Hermes (1751) and John Home Tooke's system of etymology in the Diversions of Purley (1786, 1804) bear to empiricism. It describes both the ideo