Chomsky’s beliefs include the following: that empirical research has no place in linguistics, that linguistic problems should be solved by expert intuition, that biology is inapplicable to linguistics and psychology, and that language did not evolve. All this and more can be found in his collection of papers “New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind.” I don’t think people realise how far his work is from the cognitive revolution he is credited with having founded.
Chomsky’s beliefs include the following: that empirical research has no place in linguistics, that linguistic problems should be solved by expert intuition, that biology is inapplicable to linguistics and psychology, and that language did not evolve.
Not knowing the actual context, I see plausible and true interpretations (that can be characterized by a pragmatic character) of all of these. You’d need to do better.
Chomsky’s beliefs include the following: that empirical research has no place in linguistics, that linguistic problems should be solved by expert intuition, that biology is inapplicable to linguistics and psychology, and that language did not evolve. All this and more can be found in his collection of papers “New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind.” I don’t think people realise how far his work is from the cognitive revolution he is credited with having founded.
Not knowing the actual context, I see plausible and true interpretations (that can be characterized by a pragmatic character) of all of these. You’d need to do better.