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Abandoning (conventional) lexical class
I am curious to know more about approaches to linguistics that aren’t centrally based on central word classes like nouns, verbs, etc. Instead of taking them as important categories, there could ...
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Wouldn't the premise of Chomsky's universal grammar theory be trivially true?
Quickly put, one could say that Chomsky's Universal grammar theory says that Humans are predisposed to language, and due to this all languages are equivalent.
But, aren't all languages equivalent by ...
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How did Chomsky conceive orthography and spelling?
I am curious to whether Chomsky has ever addressed anything about orthography, spelling or the impact of writing systems. The way I see it, orthography lies outside of Grammar in his theory. I couldn'...
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Is Wikipedia's argument for Universal Grammar completely fallacious?
Wikipedia's article about Chomsky makes the following argument for Universal Grammar:
For example, although children are exposed to only a very small and
finite subset of the allowable syntactic ...
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Sapir-Whorf vs. Chomsky
Can somebody let me know if this is a reasonable explanation for how the two theories are similar and different? This is not for homework, I'm just try to understand the difference, and my textbook ...
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Resources to Chomsky's Universal Grammar
I need a list of resources to Chomsky's theory of universal grammar and generative grammar that help me from zero to recent-research level [I myself do formal mathematical logic and am not totally ...
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What are the arguments against Chomsky's Universal Grammar?
What are the most convincing and most popular arguments against the Innateness Hypothesis of Universal Grammar or Universal Grammar as described by Chomsky?
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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
What are the other common approaches to study syntax?
Note: the source is an example question from the on-topic question list in Area51.
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What is a comprehensive recent discussion of the status of Chomsky's universal grammar theory?
In particular, I am interested in the suggested common features of creole languages more or less grammaticalized by children.
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