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The ongoing development of generative grammar is a testament to Chomsky's extraordinary ability to set the research agenda and continuously ask new questions and thereby sharpen our tools so that we get an ever‐better understanding of the unique human ability for language. In terms of the larger conceptual issues, there have been some changes over the years. An example is the change from Government and Binding to the Minimalist Program when it comes to approaching Universal Grammar: Do scholars assume that Universal Grammar is whatever it needs to be to account for the data, or do they instead assume that it should be as minimal as possible, in particular to get a possible handle on the evolutionary origin of the human ability for language? With the shift to the latter position, Chomsky has also positioned generative grammar better for interactions with research into cognition more generally.