Faculty of Language

David asks Evans to provide back-up for his claim that Chomsky (and by implication most other generativists) ( here ) think that looking at ...

It seems that our collective efforts are getting some traction. Evans cites the reply of four "distinguished linguists" (Evans...

Matt Husband sends me this review  of a book on evolution (thx Matt). He notes its possible relevance to third factor kinds of discussions a...

These are now a big part of the promotion and tenure process. It have never been clear to me that students actually are in a position to eva...

Are there physical constraints on evolution? Of course.  However, until recently we have known little about what these might be and how they...

Ok, some hyperbole here. But I wanted to get your attention. As I mentioned at the end of the this post , linguists need to go after this ju...

Just a note to say that things will be thin for the next several weeks, at least contributions to FoL from yours truly. I am off until the s...