a lot of it is actually the researchers themselves doing illicitations
still a few small, focused, specialized group of people, tho!
but that's ok, because big data actually isn't any help here anyway
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this is how most theoretical linguistics was done in the past BEFORE the internet, and it's how most theoretical linguistics is done NOW even with the internet
very very very few theoreticians are out there collecting gobs of data and modelling it