When I recently caught up on my pile of unread copies of the Times Literary Supplement, I came across a piece of ill-natured polemic in the ostensibly technical field of linguistics. Professor Kenneth Wexler of MIT, writing in the Letters columns of TLS (10/19/2012), opined that a distinguished scholar with whom he disagrees “lives in an alternative universe to the truth.” The truth, according to Wexler, is the one established by Noam Chomsky, viz. that there is a Universal Grammar underlying all human language.
EYE ON A CRAZY PLANET
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