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I'm all for challenging academics, but that abstract was inflammatory and un-constructive. And this is coming from someone who was a little unconvinced by some of Chomsky's ideas. For instance, 'it'/'there' insertion in X-bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Projection_Principle
I'm all for challenging academics, but that abstract was inflammatory and un-constructive. And this is coming from someone who was a little unconvinced by some of Chomsky's ideas. For instance, 'it'/'there' insertion in X-bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Projection_Principle
gotta love the chomsky scorn that always crops up here. Jesus. I doubt very seriously if any of the commentators have even dipped a toe into his work in any approaching an honest investigatory way.
That looks like an interesting paper, but I think it's against etiquette to submit paywalled links, especially in this case. You can RENT this paper for 24 hours for $6 USD? Are you kidding me? Scientific knowledge must be part of the commons. Locking up scientific papers behind paywalls is gross. Anyhoo, I googled for the paper so you don't have to: http://www.academia.edu/8739624/A_Galilean_science_of_langua...
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gotta love the chomsky scorn that always crops up here. Jesus. I doubt very seriously if any of the commentators have even dipped a toe into his work in any approaching an honest investigatory way.
Read "The Linguistics Wars". It would give you a good idea of why there's such antipathy towards Chomsky.