Faculty of Language

Is science broken/breaking and if it is what broke/is breaking it? This question has been asked and answered a lot lately. Here is another...

As any well educated GGer knows, there is a big and important difference between grammaticality and acceptability (see here and here ) (do...

Like any other organized body of doctrine, science has its founding myths. Modern science has two central ones: (i) That there exists a non...

The facts are clear: nothing does language like humans do. Nothing even comes close. I've repeatedly made this point. But it comes with ...

I have been pessimistic of late concerning the fate of linguistics.   It’s not that I think it is in intellectual trouble (I actually canno...