A disgruntled linguistics academic has a go at Chomskian Linguistics here. [Link via David Janes]. Plus a link to the Chomskybot, which generates sentences from Chomsky’s linguistic work which hover on the edge of comprehensibilty – actually not that different to his original writings.
This seems to me to be one of those scientific paradigms due to be overthrown. I can’t think of any other academic discipline so dominated by one individual – surely not a healthy state of affairs. Will we see Chomsky’s work go through the same relentless debunking that psychoanalysis has been through over the past few decades?
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