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Abstract

This paper deals with (a) interrelations between linguistic theories and linguistic materials in the research of linguistic science, (b) recent remarkable achievements in data collection of contemporary English, both in England and in America, especially, The Survey of English Usage' and The Brown Corpus, (c) the evidence that logic and natural language are not necessarily consistent in the performance of language, (d) problems of some illogical, abnormal constructions in present-day English, taking into due consideration various examples defying logicality, (e) the necessity of distinguishing philology from linguistics in the use of linguistic materials, and (f) the importance of a proper orientation of linguistic data, along with the desirability of impartial, judicious treatment of data on the part of linguists, in pursuit of linguistic theories.