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  1. CW: Linguistics, inside baseball

    The aphorism "science advances one funeral at a time" generally means that scholars get conservative in their old age but still take up intellectual space.

    Except in Generative #syntax, where the problem is that the 95(?) year old Chomsky (along with a few others) keeps trying to make progress, and much of the field resent him (them) for it.

    #linguistics #generativesyntax