Chomsky cannot help wondering at the fact that we, despite so vast evidence, have little knowledge about the obvious evidence. A good example, I think, is the child’s way of first language acquisition. A great many researchers have studied various aspects of child language acquisition at different stages of the child’ life and have brought to light many details of language development. However,...

In the course of providing an (infinitary) axiomatization of the equational theory of the class of context-free languages, Grathwohl, Kozen and Henglein (2013) have introduced the class of μcontinuous Chomsky algebras. These are idempotent semirings where least solutions for systems of polynomial inequations (i.e. context-free grammars) can be computed iteratively and where multiplication is co...

In this paper, I discuss the properties of raising constructions in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in Central Asia. Uyghur exhibits Raising of genitive subjects, which I argue are structurally case-marked. This makes untenable the Activity Condition proposed by Chomsky (1998, 2001). Genitive case assignment to subjects of embedded CPs in Uyghur is also in conflict with the strong version of t...