Faculty of Language

Norbert's most recent comments on Chomsky's lecture implicitly touched on an issue that I've been pondering ever since I reali...

I've been working in a "whig history" (WH) of generative grammar. A WH is a kind of rational reconstruction which, if doable, ...

This is the final part of my comments on lecture 3.   The first three parts are ( here , here and here ). I depart from explication mode i...

I have several bees in my bonnet. One is the systematic degradation of academic life. This can be traced to two different  causes: (i) the d...

Omer Preminger sent me this interesting post commenting on Chomsky's lecture 3 proposal that Spec-TP agreement might circumvent problems...

Here’s part 3. First two are here and here . Chomsky’s lectures are here . 1.      The Halting Problem As usual, let’s assume that...