Challenging Chomsky

Universal grammar is the most important theory in linguistics. Has the language of one tribe now disproved it?

by Philip Oltermann / June 30, 2007 / Leave a comment
Published in June 2007 issue of Prospect Magazine

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Philip Oltermann is deputy editor of the Guargian's Comment is Free site and author of "Keeping Up With The Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters" (Faber)