Uncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey

clear unripe thoughts

Another linguist, Sarah Thomason, has climbed on board the Language Log. And Mark Liberman has written an entry about a paper by Fernando Pereira that refutes one of Chomsky's many unproven linguistic edicts—this one about the infamous grammaticality of the sentence containing colorless green ideas. More than anything else this helped to close off an entire field of linguistic inquiry, i.e., information theoretical views of language. More than anything this is what I found most annoying about the master and his band of merry generativists.