Is the basic architecture of the minimalist program, with it's numeration and various interfaces, meant to model how language is comprehended or how it is generated? Or is it supposed to be abstract enough to cover both. Since the numeration is unordered, I tend to think it's supposed to be gener...

I am shocked that Linguists have not given a reasonably small canonical computationally precise representation of any natural language yet, so I wrote a recent EL&U post http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/32447/is-there-an-ebnf-that-covers-all-of-english/60761#60761 to explain how one...

How does a linguist determine whether a pattern is grammatical in a language? Is there some kind of standard test? This is assuming that there is little documentation of the language and no authority. For example, without documentation, corpus, or authority, how can one determine whether S + [b...