The biolinguistic thesis states that language is a biological system internal to an individual of the species Homo sapiens sapiens for generating structured linguistic expressions over a potentially unbounded range; the design of the system is determined by a genetic endowment, external stimuli, and natural laws. With such an expansive scope, the thesis can be thoroughly explored only through interdisciplinary enterprises—the organization of which is the desideratum of the Cambridge Biolinguistics Initiative (CBI). We welcome you to participate in this most exciting endeavor. (Continue this manifesto.)

19 November 2010

Meeting Monday 22 November

CBI shall convene for its final session of the term to discuss the Lenneberg paper and to continue the brainstorm of reformulating linguistic design features in terms of third factors (see the Chomsky paper).
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