it is affecting the way i speak for sure (i complain about AI a lot more and a lot more annoyedly than i used to)

yeah - imo, though i've never gone into the weak islands lit, i feel one of the things we've lost w phases is a way of talking about this sort of thing (or repair by ellipsis, if it exists)

when i'm explaining this stuff i always use an ECP/CED violation; i *think* those are horrible in any context

would you give such a speech irl??

two pages inc refs trees and examples! should be able to find a way to improve it

What say you Wittgensteinians

do not tempt me

the gender ratio does suck. but there's about 5 people cited, counting Chomsky for Barriers. abstracts suck

that's right!!!!!!

can i propose even {\sc ...}ing it

not as far as i remember. but i did give my parents the crappy ones and kept the good ones for myself when i made them play them with me

these were a huge thing when i was a little kid ≈18 years ago, they're back?

that's what they're going by these days?

where in england was this?

i meant that seems like a straightforward case where appeals to innateness etc. play a crucial, useful role in the theory (and fwiw that's typically how i read the claims of universality in GB – constraining the hypothesis space for acquisition)

meaning the claim of universality is of some use here

even in a theory of the acquisition process?

i'm imagining a theory that says something like "the kid doesn't entertain low attachment of "why" in (1)

(1) why did you ask whether the teacher gave us homework

because the ECP is universal"