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I'm all for challenging academics, but that abstract was inflammatory and un-constructive. And this is coming from someone who was a little unconvinced by some
by mikebelanger 10y ago
I'm all for challenging academics, but that abstract was inflammatory and un-constructive. And this is coming from someone who was a little unconvinced by some of Chomsky's ideas. For instance, 'it'/'there' insertion in X-bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Projection_Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Projection_Principle
- dtornabene 10y agogotta love the chomsky scorn that always crops up here. Jesus. I doubt very seriously if any of the commentators have even dipped a toe into his work in any approaching an honest investigatory way.
- pc2g4d 10y agoRead "The Linguistics Wars". It would give you a good idea of why there's such antipathy towards Chomsky.
- dtornabene 10y agoI've read it. And "Ideology and Linguistic Theory. And met a handful of the principals involved. And read an inordinate amount of source material i.e. monographs, books, essays, etc from the early 20th to now in American Linguistics. My point is that the hate here seems to me principally to come from 1) Chomskys criticism of AI and Norvig's program in particular 2) His politics. Anti-capitalism isn't exactly going to be the most well recieved ideological view point at a forum dedicated to startups. Also, the meat of my point still stands, not many of the commenters at the time replied in any interesting way about his actually theory. Typical drive-by internet commenting, but whatever.