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Oh good, then you can follow up on some of the reading I suggested and get back to me.

Try this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_theories_of_grammar

Use. Language as used, which is to say, communicated, shared among its speakers in a socious of linguistic coordination and negotiation, and employed ...

Yes, specialized. Language - or rather languages - are chock full of various constraints on syntactical construction. One of the aims of early Chomsky...

Lol, maybe read your own hero: "Thus, a basic and logically ineliminable role for comparative research on language evolution is this simple and essent...

No this has nothing to do with what I said.

But it is. The process is a literal show trial. Like, actual political theatre. That anyone at all is invested in it is utterly bizzare.

A quick word on this (I'm out right now and don't have access to my usual stuff): this cannot possibly be the case. PE is a theory of evolutionary tem...

No, behavioralism is a dead end, but the dichotomy Skinnerism/Chomskyism does not in the least exhaust the field. Both are false alternatives whose he...

No, I'm not. That Chomsky's thin gruel speculation on language amounts to "language popped into existence somehow somewhen because of totally unspecif...

Except its not. The problem is that anyone who understands just how insane Chomsky's take on language is would be able to see the evolutionary problem...

I do have to admit I find the whole impeachment process politically bizzarre. The outcome is predetermined: Trump will be exonerated in the senate, wh...

*shrug*, I'm sure they said the same of phlogiston. And I'm sure a great deal of those fair-minded about it now belong in the dust-bin of history, as ...

If actually giving a shit about empirical evidence and not attempting to curve-fit reality to prior theoretical commitments is ideology, count me all ...

Hey, don't take its word for it. Here it is from the horse's mouth: "According to Chomsky, a visiting Martian scientist would surely conclude that asi...

Yes. Chomsky developed his views at a time when computational reductionism was all the rage, and when AI was thought to be just around the corner, and...

Chomsky's interest in developmental studies have always been limited to confirming his a priori theories, which of course, they consistently fail to d...

That would be a great answer if Chomsky was not famous for entirely disregading linguisitc development in children, because that's precisely the kind ...

What conditions? That's the nub: Chomsky's 'conditions' amount to 'is human + has evolved'. Why and how? No answer. It's arbitrary, unscientific nonse...

Sure, and this is what I addressed: by so sharply demarcating the 'faculty' of language (as a 'basis for acquiring and using individual languages') fr...

It seems you're simply not familiar with what you're talking about, which of course, you admitted, but this is where it starts to matter: the whole po...

It is when the price to pay for it is so incredibly high. Hewing to Chomsky's linguistic program means disregarding history, society, child developmen...

Except it's far from merely 'agnostic'. It's committed to a particular view in which evolutionary gradualism is ruled out in favour of a kind of lingu...

What are you even talking about? Fuel? Coffee? Engines? Be specific, or don't bother. The charge of unfalsifiability in response to Chomsky's own resp...

I don't know how many times I have to say this: this is not a debate over whether or not we inherit certain predispositions for language. That we do i...

It's worth noting that Chomsky's response here is a straightforward admission of unfalsifiability. Quite literally, not a single piece of empirical ev...

Paraphrased: "FLN must have been evolutionarily acquired because FLN must have been evolutionarily acquired".

Also, this paper by Ibbotson and Tomasello is also worth reading if entire books are hard to acquire: http://lefft.xyz/psycholingAU16/readings/ibbotso...

Er, Chomsky: "If FLN is indeed this restricted, this hypothesis has the interesting effect of nullifying the argument from design, and thus rendering ...

Between the work of Vyvyan Evans (The Language Myth), Daniel Everett (How Language Began/Language: The Cultural Tool), and Daniel Dor (The Instruction...

Yes. He took one step forward beyond Skinner's rightly pilloried behaviorist approach and rather immediately 50 steps backwards by devising a pseudo-s...

You misunderstand - Chomsky et. al. effectively say that the FLN ('faculty of language in the narrow sense', which includes only recursion and nothing...

Maybe leave your armchair psychoanalysing in the bin by the door where it belongs? No, my animus against Chomsky is simply that he's set the field of ...

I don't know what 'that' in 'that argument' refers to. In any case, there's little to no use in simply pitting terms like 'nature' and 'nuture', 'cult...

Here and here are some easy reading if you're interested in some rather straightforward critiques of the Chomskian paradigm. The long and short of it ...

I'm basically of the opinion that if you take everything Chomsky said about language, and then held the diametrically opposite view to anything he eve...

Great. All the more reason to ensure that we keep open the possibility that new evidence may prompt a revision of our theories, as a matter of princip...

Maurizio Lazzarato - Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity Paolo Virno - Deja Vu and the End of History A couple of Italia...

The necessity of keeping science empirical. I said this from the very beginning so I'm somewhat bemused that we had to detour through a bunch of unrel...

Ugh, "...via an evolutionary process" obviously, I'd have thought that obvious enough. As for null hypothesis I simply mean the idea that heritable ch...

I'm entirely with you on selective pressure being a loose net and the reality of exaptation and so on. None of this I dispute. None of this has been i...

But this is just crude adaptationism; the sting in the tail of IC is the second part, in which evolution could not have given rise to something becaus...

Seriously, that there may be a necessary but unselected for mutation requires no commitment to teleology. A teleological commitment would require the ...

Oh I see, IC is committed to teleology because you said so. Cool.

Yes of course. But I simply don't care one bit about ID, which is on par with a belief in unicorns as far as I'm concerned.

Excepting Behe's unjustified leap from unlikely Darwinism to likely ID, how is any of that a commitment to teleology? Like really, explain it in your ...

IC has no commitment to teleology. IC is essentially the thesis that shit happens; nothing more.

Then the rest of what you said is of no relevance, especially regarding teleology, which IC has no commitment to.

Yep.

IC <> ID. What you say applies to ID, not IC. ID Is a positive thesis, IC a wholly negative one. I'm not at all taking about ID, which is beneath seri...