This weekend the National Conservatism Conference hosts “NatCon 3.” Featuring speakers from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, the conference convenes “public figures, journalists, ...

What this shows is that Chomsky really does seem to believe that, in principle, a single language can be used to study “the [universal] principles of language”. This follows from his assertion that, ...

Today we celebrate the anniversary of American independence. But we too often forget a crucial way in which the principles of the Declaration of Independence contrast with those of virtually all ...

In an earlier post, Is There A Language Instinct?, based on my book, The Language Myth, I observed that the philosopher and linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky, argues that Universal Grammar can be ...