The Chomskyan Turn
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
424 pages
978-0-631-18734-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 42 mm
Weight
651 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-18734-9 (9780631187349)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Asa Kasher is A. Horodisch Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University
Content
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
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