Mark Brenchley

Mark Brenchley is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter. His main interests lie in the nature of grammatical knowledge, focusing on its acquisition and later development within a wider framework of communicative competence, and on the use of corpus-based techniques to better understand such development. He is currently working on the Growth in Grammar project, which aims to provide a systematic map of grammatical development in English children’s writing.

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Linguistics Fiat recursio! [long_description] David Lobina and Mark Brenchley review Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech, arguing that most accounts of Chomsky’s concept of recursion are erroneous. By clarifying just what Chomsky meant by the term, they show that Everett’s (and Wolfe’s) critique of Chomsky becomes irrelevant.

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