Abstract Lin (2017), according to the author, “offers a refutation of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar (UG) from a novel perspective”. Unfortunately, “novel” does not mean logical or valid. On the contrary, as I will show in this refutation of Lin’s refutation, there is a profound and fundamental misunderstanding in Lin’s interpretation of UG. His refutation only proves his superficial understanding of the questions raised and discussed, which nevertheless are worth discussing and explaining. I take each of Lin’s arguments in turn and attempt to show why they are not well founded, either because of flaws in his argumentation or because of a careful consideration of the available empirical evidence. In the first section I show that Lin’s refutation of UG is illogical in that he confuses UG as a theoretical construct and as a reality entity, which renders his own analysis self-contradictory. The second section aims to examine in detail the so-called novelty of Lin’s refutation, proving that his refutation is unscientific. The third section offers a point-to-point refutation of his arguments presented in the third section of his paper. The fourth section furthermore points out several misunderstandings of previous studies against Chomsky and UG. The last section concludes the paper.

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驳斥“普遍语法的驳斥”（Lin，f。2017. Lingua 193. 1–22。）

根据作者的摘要，Lin（2017）“从新颖的观点出发，驳斥了乔姆斯基的通用语法（UG）”。不幸的是，“新颖”并不意味着逻辑或有效。相反，正如我将在林书豪的反驳中所表明的那样，林书豪对UG的解释存在着深刻而根本的误解。他的驳斥仅证明了他对提出和讨论的问题的肤浅理解，但是仍然值得讨论和解释。我依次考虑林先生的每个论据，并试图说明为什么它们的依据不充分，原因是他的论证存在缺陷，或者是由于仔细考虑了现有的经验证据。在第一部分中，我展示了林先生对UG的反驳是不合逻辑的，因为他将UG当作理论建构和现实实体加以混淆，这使他自己的分析自相矛盾。第二部分旨在详细研究林书豪所谓的新颖性，证明林书豪的反对是不科学的。第三部分对他的论文第三部分中提出的论点进行了点对点的驳斥。第四部分还指出了先前对Chomsky和UG的研究的一些误解。最后一部分是本文的总结。