Faculty of Language

Here are a couple of things to read that I found amusing. The first two concern a power play by Elsevier that seems serious. The publisher...

Here’s a small addition to the previous post prompted by a discussion with Paul Pietroski. I am always going on about how focusing on recur...

I am in the process of co-editing a volume on Syntactic Structures (SS) that is due out in 2017 to celebrate (aka, exploit) the 60 th ann...

I was reading the latest (February 9/2017) issue of the NYR and the lead article is a review of The revenge of the analog  (by David Sax). T...

Dan Everett (DE) has written once again on his views about Piraha, recursion, and the implications for Universal Grammar ( here ). I was st...

It's file reading season so my time is limited right now. That and the hangover from the holidays has made me slower. Nonetheless, I tho...

I recently co-wrote a comment (see  here ) on a piece by Berlinski and Uriagereka on Vergnaud's theory of case (see  here  and  here) , ...