Faculty of Language

It is somewhat surprising that Harper’s felt the need to run a hit piece by Tom Wolfe on Chomsky in its August issue ( here ). True, such ...

Norbert and regular readers of this prestigious blog may have seen me participate in some discussions about open access publishing, e.g. in ...

Here’s part 2. See here for part 1. L&M identifies two other important properties that were central to the Cartesian view. Fir...

Once again, this post got away from me, so I am dividing it into two parts. As I mentioned in a recent previous post, I have just finis...

Talk about data problems!   Here is one we should all be aware of . Beware native speakers with an agenda or a sense of humor.  Thx to Paul ...

Here are three more short pieces ( here, here , here ) on the academic publishing landscape. All three relate to publishing in bio-med and ...

Every summer I go back to Generative Grammar (GG) re-education camp. I pick up an old classic (or two) and reread it/them to see what I fai...