Pinker & Jackendoff on Minimalism

[Yehuda N. Falk]

I found out about this on another list, and thought people here might be
interested, too. It's a piece by Pinker and Jackendoff "The Faculty of
Language: What's So Special About It?" -- a response to an article about
the evolution of the language faculty co-written by Chomsky. It includes a
rather thorough critique of the Minimalist Program.

The paper can be downloaded from Jackendoff's web page:

http://people.brandeis.edu/~jackendo/

Cheers!
Yehuda

                            Yehuda N. Falk
       Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
                     Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
                        msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
      Personal Web Site    http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/
     Departmental Web Site    http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~english/

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