Faculty of Language

I’m sitting here in my rocking chair, half dozing (it’s hard for me to stay awake these days) and I come across this passage from the Scien...

I have consistently criticized Everett’s Piraha based argument against Chomsky’s conception about Universal Grammar (UG) by noting that the...

David Pesetsky posted a comment linking to this review of Wolfe's book by Joshua Leach. I bring it to your attention here for it is read...

It’s been a bad few weeks to be a Chomskyan. It seems like everywhere you turn, someone is claiming that the core ideas of generative lingu...

For those misguided souls like me who can't get enough of the awful coverage of the Wolfe book, here is a breath of fresh air.  Steven P...

The papers are having a field day with Chomsky, getting hits by insisting that he is wrong about this and about that. The coverage is eviden...

This is the second part of William Matchin's paper. Thanks again to William for putting this down on paper and provoking discussion. ...