On the poverty of the challenge

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20344252
AutoresHoward Lasnik (0000-0002-8221-9246), Juan Uriagereka (0000-0001-9194-3626, University of Maryland, College Park)
Ano2002
Volume18
Fascículo1-2
Data de publicação2002-01-26
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlir.19.1-2.147
OpenAlexW2075230435
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

Positive data involving auxiliary fronting are never evidence for a constraint such as the structure-dependent hypothesis. At best, positive data of any complexity are direct evidence for a simple-minded hypothesis, of the sort of 'front the first auxiliary (after something or other)'. On the widespread assumption that negative data are generally unavailable to children learning language, a serious empiricist alternative to the rationalist view that linguistic structure is partly innate would have to show how the correct hypothesis ('front the matrix auxiliary') is induced from mere extensions from positive data. But this does not seem possible

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