Event-based Types of Languages Revisited in Cognitive Constraints

This paper assesses the empirical adequacy of linguistic parameters in the context of Chomsky's Universal Grammar by presenting some examples against an event-based language typology. This paper also suggests that cognitive processing mechanisms underlying language processing, rather than linguistic characteristics, might be the source of language universality and that diversity of language might be constrained by common cognitive processing mechanisms.

I. Introduction

II. Evidence against the event-based language typology proposed in Ritter and Rosen (2000)

III. Evidence of the general cognitive ability to limit the language variation

IV. Conclusion

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