The Axiom of Categoricity is a tenet of linguistic theory that remained practically undisputed before the inception of modern sociolinguistics in the mid-twentieth century. The term was coined by J.K. Chambers in 1995 and refers to the once-popular belief that in order to properly study language, linguistic data should be removed or abstracted from all real-world context so as to be free of any inconsistencies or variability.

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  • The Axiom of Categoricity is a tenet of linguistic theory that remained practically undisputed before the inception of modern sociolinguistics in the mid-twentieth century. The term was coined by J.K. Chambers in 1995 and refers to the once-popular belief that in order to properly study language, linguistic data should be removed or abstracted from all real-world context so as to be free of any inconsistencies or variability.
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  • The Axiom of Categoricity is a tenet of linguistic theory that remained practically undisputed before the inception of modern sociolinguistics in the mid-twentieth century. The term was coined by J.K. Chambers in 1995 and refers to the once-popular belief that in order to properly study language, linguistic data should be removed or abstracted from all real-world context so as to be free of any inconsistencies or variability.
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  • Axiom of categoricity
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