Saussure and Chomsky - Converging and Diverging

Saussure and Chomsky, the two major figures in linguistics of the twentieth
century and beyond, have often been compared. The collection of bilingual
English and French papers of this volume offers different perspectives, defended
by two generations of researchers, on what brings together and distinguishes
the Saussurean and Chomskyan theories. The papers all highlight that the two
theories offer points of convergence, as they are interested in the same human
manifestation, while divergence emerges from the fact that they build on two
different premises about the nature of their object of study. The authors do
not always reach similar conclusions but offer thoughts and material that will
definitely help readers form their own opinion.

List of contents

Ferdinand de Saussure - Noam Chomsky - General linguistics - Biography - Generative grammar - Grammar - Cognition - Innatism - History of linguistics - Linguistic sign - Linguistic system - Linguistic theory - Origin of language - Quaternion - Recursion - Social institution - Structuralism - Syntax

About the author

Giuseppe Cosenza currently works at the University of Calabria and collaborates
with the University of Geneva on the digitalization of Saussure's manuscripts. He
is the author of a volume on Saussure's terminology.
Claire Forel is a former associate professor of English linguistics at the University
of Geneva. She has been a long-standing figure in the field of Saussurean studies,
including their reception in the English-speaking world.
Genoveva Puskás is an associate professor of English linguistics at the University
of Geneva. She trained within the generative framework, and is the author of a
volume on the Minimalist Program by Chomsky.
Thomas Robert was trained as a philosopher. He has pursued the question of the
origin of language and wrote his PhD dissertation on 'The origin of the language
in human animals: Rousseau, Darwin, Saussure'.

Product details

• Assisted by: Claire A Forel (Editor), Claire A Forel u a (Editor), Marie-José Béguelin (Editor), Alain Berrendonner (Editor), Giuseppe Cosenza (Editor), Giuseppe Cosenza u a (Editor), Louis de Saussure (Editor), Claire A. Forel (Editor), Didier Maillat (Editor), Genoveva Puskas (Editor), Genoveva Puskas u a (Editor), Thomas Robert (Editor), Thomas Robert u a (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: French, English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2022
• EAN: 9783034344579
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3434457-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 10 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 232 g
• Illustrations: 6 Abb.
• Series: Sciences pour la communication
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures