Deciphering a Metaphor

I have been thinking about my lastpost andHubert Haiber 's argument that "Natural languages have the properties they have because they reflect the properties which our language-learning and language-using human brain capacities can cope with." ( SeeAn anthropic principle in lieu of a "Universal Grammar) This principle might seem self-evident, even circular, but it is a direct challenge to the concept of an innate, universal grammar. Indeed, Haiber is attacking Chomsky 's innate (a.k.a. nativist) principle directly: "Nobody has ever been able to produce immediate and compelling evidence in favour of the strong nativist hypothesis." Disagreeing with Chomsky is hardly news, and I would probably let the paper pass by if it weren't for a second feature, the me taphor of grammar ...

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