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The Implications of Shared Intentionality for Universal Grammar
The approach to language as a system of communication is based on a misunderstanding of evolutionary theory, he says. The phenomenon of shared intentionality doesn't tell us anything about universal grammar, the author argues. Other human activities don't affect that theory and it's something about our internal computational systems which are at its root.