Dec 262020
I was reading some comments by Dan Milway about Chomsky’s recent UCLA lectures, and I realized something I hadn’t noticed before: committing oneself to the brand of minimalism that Chomsky has been preaching lately means committing oneself to a fairly strong version of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
Here’s why. Consider … [read more] “blogpost: Noam Chomsky and Benjamin Lee Whorf walk into a bar…”