Entirely too common

I'd be tempted to clip the second to "ereyester"

Leaving typos as proof of my humanity

We must resist the allure of abstract methods, fixed positions, or other forms of intellectual comfort to avoid the dangers of such complacency.

To quote Fanon 1952:12), "I shall be derelict. I leave methods to the botanists and mathematicians. There is a point at which methods devour themselves."

Gracias a ti por la respuesta! Sí, lingüista investigando toponomia, onomástica, lingüística histórica de la region 😃

I think we can state clearly what our theoretical perspective is, what hypotheses we're testing, and what the data/results demonstrate. We can speculate about what the results mean for all of "language" I suppose, but linguists almost uniformly ignore language sampling bias.

I think Damián Blasi also suggested that the contemporary sample of langs we see worldwide is likely to be genealogically & typologically impoverished, based on population structure change in the Holocene, so some of these Qs may be the wrong questions or unanswerable, but I might be misremembering.

Yes, I rarely ever see theoretical perspectives stated explicitly.

Timo Roettger's 'preregistration' is one important solution for non-descriptive work, but he also suggests most claims are too quantitatively underspecified to be tested and we need more exploratory research.

Yes, great point. Thank you for sharing these important thoughts.

I often find myself thinking "I know nothing about prosodic / suprasegmental phonology".

In fact, I recall faculty berating me for not using more deterministic lang. Coming from the biological sciences, I found that disturbing.