2 novembre 2018
Martin Haspelmath, « What is the role of innate universal categories in grammatical theorizing? A conversation between David Adger and Martin Haspelmath », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10670/1.6g93ew
Martin Haspelmath: David, you criticized a blogpost that I wrote a while ago, where I said that Chomsky apparently changed his mind and no longer assumes a rich universal grammar (UG). I didn’t quite understand what you meant in your brief Twitter comments. I have been under the impression that in at least 20th century Principles & Parameters linguistics, the idea was that innate grammatical knowledge explains limits on diversity, and therefore analyses of particular languages should make us...