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The Galilean Challenge
Noam Chomsky
[short_description] One of the most striking features of the human capacity for language is the use of finite means to express an unlimited array of thoughts. Accounting for this feature is the Galilean challenge.
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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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