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Noam Chomsky's work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, which contains two new papers by Chomsky, assesses that 'Chomskyan Turn' in linguistics and the cognitive sciences.
The articles by Chomsky
Linguistics and Adjacent Fields and
Linguistics and Cognitive Science are particularly valuable both in reviewing the current state of the generative enterprise and in presenting his new 'functional' approach to principles of Universal Grammar.
The concluding papers focus on syntactic issues in Government and Binding.
List of contents
List of Contributors vii Preface viii
Part I
1 Linguistics and Adjacent Fields: A Personal View 3
Noam Chomsky 2 Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Problems and Mysteries 26
Noam Chomsky Part II
3 Why Phonology is Different 56
Sylvain Bromberger and Morris Halle 4 Language and Brain: Redefining the Goals and Methodology of Linguistics 78
Victoria A. Fromkin 5 Grammar, Meaning and Indeterminacy 104
Norbert Hornstein 6 Pragmatics and Chomsky's Research Programme 122
Asa Kasher 7 'Cartesian' Linguistics? 150
Justin Leiber 8 Psychological Reality of Grammars 182
Robert J. Matthews 9 Rules and Principles in Historical Development of Generative Syntax 200
Frederick J. Newmeyer 10 Rules and Representation: Chomsky and Representational Realism 231
Zenon Pylyshyn 11 On the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus 252
Ken Wexler Part III
12 On the Status of Referential Indices 273
Luigi Rizzi 13 Concepts of Logical Form in Linguistics and Philosophy 300
Shalom Lappin 14 Syntax, Semantics and Logical Form 334
Robert May 15 Non-Quantificational LF 360
Tanya Reinhart 16 LF and the Structure of the Grammar: Comments 385
Susan D. Rothstein Subject Index 396
Name Index 404
About the author
Asa Kasher is A. Horodisch Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University
Summary
Noam Chomskya s work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, which contains two new papers by Chomsky, assesses that a Chomskyan Turna in linguistics and the cognitive sciences.
