The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

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Where did language come from? Not evolution, Tom Wolfe argues in his new book, which attempts to refute Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky. (Mark Seliger) Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the ...

This article exemplifies Language-Internal Explanation. It seeks to document and to explain the inability of Russian impersonal clauses to be infinitival. We argue that this gap is the consequence of ...