Research
“For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the ability to seek behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest”
Noam Chomsky
Off the Chain
Minimalism has no agreed-upon approach to chains. The key problem, as noted by Collins & Groat (2018), is that an all-you-need-is-MERGE logic (Chomsky 2008, Chomsky et al. 2019) is not enough to distinguish repetitions (selected from the Lexicon) from copies (taken from the derivational workspace that carries the computation). Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), for instance, […]
By Ángel J. Gallego, Juan Uriagereka
October 20, 2020
Towards Matrix Syntax
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 27-44 Matrix syntax is a model of syntactic relations in language, which grew out of a desire to understand chains. The purpose of this paper is to explain its basic ideas to a linguistics audience, without entering into too many formal details (for which cf. Orús et al. 2017). The resulting […]
By Roger Martin, Román Orús, Juan Uriagereka
December 23, 2019
The MER41 family of HERVs is uniquely involved in the immune-mediated regulation of cognition/behavior-related genes: pathophysiological implications for autism spectrum disorders
Frontiers Genetics 321, vol 10 Social behavior and neuronal connectivity in rodents have been shown to be shaped by the prototypical T lymphocyte-derived pro-inflammatory cytokine Interferon-gamma (IFNγ). It has also been demonstrated that STAT1 (Signal Transducer And Activator Of Transcription 1), a transcription factor (TF) crucially involved in the IFNγ pathway, binds consensus sequences that, […]
By Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Serge Nataf, Juan Uriagereka
April 12, 2019
Intentionality and Domestication
Workshop on Biolinguistics, University of the Balearic Islands.
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January 11, 2019