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Not Only Us
Cedric Boeckx
[short_description] In his review of Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky’s Why Only Us, Cedric Boeckx argues for a fresh approach to the question at the heart of the book: “Are humans the only ones who possess language?”
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Fiat recursio!
David Lobina & Mark Brenchley
[short_description] Most accounts of Chomsky’s concept of recursion are wrong; clarifying it renders a new critique by Tom Wolfe irrelevant. David Lobina and Mark Brenchley review Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech.
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Became, Become, Becoming
David Adger
[short_description] Concepts such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis form the basis for both the film Arrival and the short story by Ted Chiang on which it is based. David Adger reviews the film and its ideas.
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The Recovery of Case
David Berlinski & Juan Uriagereka
[short_description] Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter assumed that case is obligatory even in English, and part of Universal Grammar. Here Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski analyze Vergnaud’s case filter.
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Reinventing Linguistics – Again
W. Tecumseh Fitch
[short_description] How to reconcile Noam Chomsky the linguist and philosopher with Chomsky the political critic? In a review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch finds an underlying unity.
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The Science of Linguistics
Éric Laporte
[short_description] The French linguist Maurice Gross stressed formal procedures of empirical observation and systematic lexical studies. Generative grammar rejects, and corpus linguistics overlooks, both.
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