We begin with the hypothesis that all people are “bilingual” because every language contains ingredients from several grammars, just as English exhibits both an Anglo-Saxon and a Latinate vocabulary system. We argue that the dominant grammar is defined by productivity and recursion in particular. Although current evidence is sparse, in principle, for a child who shows SLI in a bilingual environ...

This paper argues against minimalism about truth. It does so by way of a comparison of the theory of truth with the theory of sets, and consideration of where paradoxes may arise in each. The paper proceeds by asking two seemingly unrelated questions. First, what is the theory of truth about? Answering this question shows that minimalism bears important similarities to naive set theory. Second,...

While research in ‘principles and parameters’ tradition [18] can be regarded as attributing as much as possible to universal grammar (UG) in order to understand how language acquisition is possible, Chomsky characterizes the ‘minimalist program’ as an effort to attribute as little as possible to UG while still accounting for the apparent diversity of human languages [23, p.4]. Of course, these ...