PDF #132 – Ewa Dąbrowska – What exactly is Universal Grammar, and has anyone seen it?
Universal Grammar is a suspect concept. There is little agreement on what exactly it is supposed to contain; and the empirical evidence for it is very weak. This paper critically examines a variety of arguments that have been put forward as evidence for UG, showing that they are irrelevant, circular, or based on premises which are at best unsubstantiated, and in a number of cases simply false
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