Faculty of Language

Johan Rooryck sent me the following very interesting piece on open access journals for linguistics. It addresses an issue that has been disc...

In the previous post ( here ) I provided some relevant background for discussing a forthcoming paper in Cognition by Cole, Hermon and Yant...

This is the first of three posts on a forthcoming Cognition paper arguing against UG. The specific argument is against the Binding Theory....

So here’s my question: What’s the point of theta theory? What does a theta role do? Here’s my impression: we want theta theory to do two di...