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Re:A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages by eindiran on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:31PM (#21032355)
This is a widely cited counter-example, but I think most linguists think the case is closed regarding whether this is actually a counter-example to the Chomskyian program. Andrew Nevins and David Pesetsky have an extremely convincing rebuttal of Everett's claim.

http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/s07/myths/nevi...

https://www.academia.edu/3112859/Evidence_and_argumentation_...

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