129447 20231219145827.0 doi 10.1017/S0022226718000166 sideral 105946 ART-2018-105946 eng Mendívil Giró, José Luis Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6891-6275 Is Universal Grammar ready for retirement? A short review of a longstanding misinterpretation 2018 In this paper I consider recent studies that deny the existence of Universal Grammar (UG), and I show how the concept of UG that is attacked in these works is quite different from Chomsky’s, and thus that such criticisms are not valid. My principal focus is on the notions of ‘linguistic specificity’ and of ‘innateness’, and I conclude that, since the controversy about UG is based on misinterpretations, it is rendered sterile and thus does unnecessary harm to linguistic science. I also address the underlying reasons for these misunderstandings and suggest that, once they have been clarified, there is much scope for complementary approaches that embrace different research traditions within current theoretical linguistics. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 1.125 2018 LINGUISTICS 69 / 182 = 0.379 2018 Q2 T2 0.675 2018 Language and Linguistics 2018 Q1 Philosophy 2018 Q1 Linguistics and Language 2018 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3010 575 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst. Gral. e Hisp. Área Lingüística General 54 (2018), 1-30 J. linguist. JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS 0022-2267 521593 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129447/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1115755 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/129447/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:129447 articulos driver 2023-12-19-13:59:19 ARTICLE