Syzygy but I would be very surprised if those were scornful linguistics profs, as one of the most consistent differentiating factors between ling and language/literature academics
you’re right on that! since there isn’t any offer for an actual linguistics degree in this region most of the professors were just people that had a degree in literature or something similar and they just happened to be teaching linguistics to the kids studying translation. which was unfortunate to say the least.
Syzygy we’re descriptivist, often contentiously so. Generative linguistics as a field was at the forefront of repudiating the tired scholarly notion of any languages being any more or less “primitive”, and we do be big on the syntactic merits of “AAVE”.
yeah, as a “linguistics fan”, I was familiar with generative linguistics. so when I started college and I had many linguistic related classes, I was like: “wtf is this, i’m out”
( I was studying translation because it was the closest thing to linguistics that any local university had) (the university system in mexico sucks ass in that you have to choose a degree before starting and there’s a very rigid study plan with few optional classes, but hey at least college it’s (almost) free in here))
