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The law of double negation in the history of the research on natural languages

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The paper deals with the philosophical assumptions of linguistic theories. It is concerned with three paradigms of linguistic thought (generativist, structuralist, and historical-comparative). Its main thesis is a proposal to treat the psychological approach assumed by generativists as a peculiar dialectical transformation of the psychological assumptions of the historical-comparative linguistics. The paper deals with the philosophical assumptions of linguistic theories. It is concerned with three paradigms of linguistic thought (generativist, structuralist, and historical-comparative). Its main thesis is a proposal to treat the psychological approach assumed by generativists as a peculiar dialectical transformation of the psychological assumptions of the historical-comparative linguistics

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