Faculty of Language

Part 2 and a half showed us the consequences of the MSO-Merge correspondence, both good and bad. In an ideal world, there should be a way t...

The value added of the current review process for publication is coming under increasing scrutiny. I am not sure exactly what I think, thoug...

Yesterday we learned that a constraint can be expressed by Merge iff it can be defined in monadic second-order logic. But is this a good thi...

Last time in our riveting story of intrigue and cabal, the seemingly innocuous subcategorization requirements encoded via Merge turned out ...

One of the things that seems to bug many about FL/UG is the supposition that it is a domain specific module dedicated to ...

A while ago, Norbert wrote  several interesting posts regarding the Specifier Island Constraint (SPIC) that caused me to chime in with so...

Thanks to Ewan for sending me the link to this upcoming critical review of Bayesianism as cognitive theory. This time the authors are Gary ...