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Ware, Ruth. Escabias, Juana. Garcia Baena, Pablo. Robin H. Ray, News Office Correspondent April 23, Controversies in the field of linguistics seldom make headlines, which is why the current imbroglio over an alleged counterexample to Universal Grammar UG , made famous in the s by Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of linguistics, is so unusual.
On one side is Daniel L. The attributes that Everett claims are unique to that language are in fact extant in other well-documented languages, such as Bengali and even German.
Linguistics began to focus attention on UG several decades ago in an attempt to move their study from the particularization of philology--the detailed description of individual languages and language families, with which the field was preoccupied for centuries--to an understanding of the remarkable wealth of features that all languages share, and thence to an understanding of the human mind. Constraints of culture, Everett believes, in turn impoverish the language, which has no tenses, no names for colors and other allegedly unique paucities.
The language constraints, he claims, indicate "some of the components of so-called core grammar are subject to cultural constraints, something that is predicted not to occur" by Chomsky's universal-grammar model. Everett's article and his colorful field career have been taken up by the popular press, with stories in the Independent, Der Spiegel and, most recently, the New Yorker, among other publications.
Pesetsky marvels at the interest this debate has sparked, not only within the field but in the world at large. An exception is nothing else than a rule that applies exceptionally. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani , , p.
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On the one side stands the exception, on the other the universal , and the struggle itself is a strange conflict between the rage and impatience of the universal over the disturbance the exception causes and its infatuated partiality for the exception, for after all is said and done, just as heaven rejoices more over a sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous, so does the universal rejoice over the exception.
On the other side battles the insubordination and defiance of the exception, his weakness and infirmity. The whole thing is a wrestling match in which the universal breaks with the exception, wrestles with him in conflict, and strengthens him through this wrestling. If the exception cannot endure the distress, the universal does not help him any more than heaven helps a sinner who cannot endure the pain of repentance.
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