In essence, because Universal Grammar is an axiom—an article of faith—it’s more or less acceptable to put inconvenient data aside, or even, to ignore it altogether; otherwise, this inconvenient data ...

The cognitive linguist Michael Tomasello recently proclaimed that "universal grammar is dead." According to the most prominent linguist of recent times, Noam Chomsky, universal grammar is the inborn ...

Latest issue of New Scientist has an interview with Noam Chomsky on, language, human nature, social media and politics, as well as a little photo gallery. Excerpt here, the full thing is online, you ...

Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose political implications Chomsky denies, have been coming ...