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I don't think you understand what the universal grammar is, if you're discounting DLM as merely being "likely based on human constraints," because that's the wh

I don't think you understand what the universal grammar is, if you're discounting DLM as merely being "likely based on human constraints," because that's the whole hypothesis of the universal grammar. It posits that there are physical limitations in the brain that force certain structures on language, as opposed to language being completely free form.

tmalsburg2 11y ago
The hypothesis that the brain imposes constrains on possible languages is trivially true and the alternative that languages can be free-form is a straw man. That's the problem with universal grammar, depending on who you ask, it is either absurd or trivial. Perhaps there are more sensible formulations of the idea but I have yet to see them.