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That is simply false about UG only being based on English. Maybe in 1950 but any modern generativist theory uses data from many, many languages and English has
by suddenlybananas 2y ago
That is simply false about UG only being based on English. Maybe in 1950 but any modern generativist theory uses data from many, many languages and English has been re-analysed in light of other languages (see here for an example of quantifiers being analysed in English on the basis of data in a Salish language https://philpapers.org/rec/MATQAT https://philpapers.org/rec/MATQAT )