What constitutes the “cutting edge?”

…does progress mean tackling bigger mysteries or specifying existing models with greater precision? Are there limits to what linguists can know scientifically? (‘Rooting Language Family Trees’)

• “‘Unravelling Babel”: Mary LeCron Foster on the Origins of Language,” British Journal for the History of Science Themes 6: 97-113. [Link]

• with Joseph Salmons, “Review Essay: Lyle Campbell and William J. Poser, Language Classification, History, and Method,” Lingua, 120: 189-195. [DOI]