Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Chomsky under fire/reply

I'm not a big fan of Evertte - i think he makes fundimental mistakes when looking at so called "ancient" languages and so-called "primative" people. That aside, I had heard that Chomsky (well, his universal grammar) is right at teh cusp of "ummm not so fast". That's fine with me, if only cause it presupposes things that I find odd now that i'm more fully versed in ASL and signed languages.

But on the other hand, what "universal grammar" is, can be so damn vague "we have a sense of language" type vague, that it loses some meaning to me. When UV becomes "humans are driven to interpret their world via language" I don't think you can challenge it. But the new stuff you showed me about a month ago, that was really dealing with "language first? or language as a bi product" was far more compelling and might better explain what language is. and what, if anything a UV would be.

In other words, get over my bias against evertte and read the "juicy" stuff, as this author says.