[panglott]

Yea, I was reading through the article and wondering why they didn't mention actual researchers. Where's the discussion of Tomasello's work, for example? Then down at the bottom, I saw:

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Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Michael Tomasello. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Adele Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language, Usage and Cognition. Joan Bybee. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Some of the usual suspects. Further discussion of these would have improved the article immensely. I generally agree with the article, but it has a lot of nits to pick—it mischaracterizes the debate over Pirahã and recursion, for example, and significant evidence against the pro-drop parameter actually came from Western European languages.