The fact that the proposed universals were discarded does not refute Schütze's methodological concern that conflicting judgments held back the development of Government and Binding theory.
Conflicting judgments(in studying how language works)
Disagreements between linguists or language experts about whether certain sentences or phrases are grammatically correct.
Government and Binding theory(in theoretical linguistics)
A influential theory in linguistics (developed by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s) that tries to explain the deep rules all human languages share and how they work.
Methodological concern(in discussing how research is conducted)
A worry about whether the methods or approach being used to study something are actually working well or producing reliable results.
Schütze(as a linguist studying language structure)
Carson Schütze, a linguist who raised concerns about how contradictory judgments (disagreements about what sentences are grammatically correct) were preventing progress in a major theory of language.
universals(Debated in Lefèvre's Disceptatio de universali between two students of Chrysippus's academy)
Either what particular classes of things share, or what those who reason say they share (decided by convention)
Either Phillips is fronting the surprising opinion that generative theorizing has never been led down the wrong track by demonstrably unreliable data, or he is changing the subject. And unless clear criteria are established for what counts as “damage” and “holding back,” Phillips is not offering any testable hypothesis about data collection methodology. For example, Phillips discounts the observation of Schütze (1996) that conflicting judgments of relative unacceptability of violations of two li
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