Faculty of Language

Benjamin suggested adding a new feature that alerts people to recent comments on the various blog posts.  As the comments are at least as in...

Alex Clark brought up a point about how to understand the implications of Chomsky's cute example. I was resistant (to say the least) to ...

This is a long post.  I guess I got carried away. In my defense, I think that the topic keeps coming up obliquely and so ...

As many of you know, there has been a debate in the literature lately about the reliability of acceptability judgements as used by linguists...

The concept of exaptation has been pressed into service in discussion of the evolution of FL. Indeed, the idea that extant mechanisms can be...

I just found out that Ivan Sag has died of cancer at 63 ( here ).  Ivan did very important work in syntax and syntax-semantics interface iss...

One of Chomsky’s more charming qualities is his way of making important conceptual points using simple linguistic example...