Status Updates From افسانه زبان: چرا زبان غریزی...

به نظرم نظریه دستورجهانی چامسکی از اساس اشتباهه. این کتاب تا حدودی این دیدگاه رو به چالش کشیده

...the change of pronunciation, over time, exhibited by the Queen is the consequence of the propagation of a particular lingueme that has become established as convention – had replacing hed. Ironically, the Queen is likely to have been influenced by younger members of her entourage who are leading the change in the Queen’s English.

Today there are between 6,000 and 8,000 languages spoken in the world. It is difficult to say precisely how many. This is because it is inherently tricky to determine whether a spoken variety counts as a dialect or a language in its own right. [...] Nearly every week one of the world’s languages dies out. This happens when the last speaker of a language dies, or, more accurately, when the penultimate speaker dies..

Today there are between 6,000 and 8,000 languages spoken in the world.3 It is difficult to say precisely how many. This is because it is inherently tricky to determine whether a spoken variety counts as a dialect or a language in its own right. [...] Nearly every week one of the world’s languages dies out. This happens when the last speaker of a language dies, or, more accurately, when the penultimate speaker dies

ترجمه عالي و روان اين كتاب باعث شده نتونم اون رو زمين بگذارم. وقتي كتاب رو تموم كنم حتما در موردش بازخورد مينويسم ولي كتاب در رابطه با رد نظريه غريزي بودن زبان در انسان هست كه توسط چامسكي براي اولين بار مطرح شده است.

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

-John F. Kennedy”