Mick O'Donnell wrote to sys-func on 14/7/22 at 9:16:
Jim Martin has always impressed me as someone who, while respecting the whole, is willing to change core assumptions, when the needs of linguistic modeling require it. … what is important is that Jim has been (and continues to be) willing to throw out established ideas (even his own) if they don't fit new data. And anyone who is not willing to do similarly is kidding themselves if they think they are doing linguistic science.
and David Rose replied at 9:23:
At great personal risk
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Cf. Martin & Rose (2007: 62) on Martin:
His communion with Mandela, at such a distance in so many respects …
For an examination of Martin's theorising, see the review of Martin (1992) here.
For an example of Martin's "propriety", see his falsely accusing Ruqaiya Hasan of plagiarism at a symposium convened to celebrate her life's work after her death here.
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