Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and beyond. The first discussion dates from the early days of the so-called Government Binding Theory, the second one took place after a decade of Minimalism. Thereby the evolution and the dynamics in linguistic theorizing are dramatically revealed. Scholars of grammar, cognitive scientists, philosophers will profit by reading this book, but anyone with an ardent interest in this marvellous, eminently human achievement of evolution called language will want to read about it in the words of the undisputed grand master of linguistic research, Noam Chomsky.
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"Chomsky wieder gelesen: Unter dem Titel 'The Generative Enterprise Revisited' ist soeben eine faszinierende Einladung zu einer solchen Wiederlekture erschienen."(Dietmar Dath, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Juli 2004)
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783111883182
Publisert
2004-01-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Mouton de Gruyter
Vekt
750 gr
Aldersnivå
05, U
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Kombinasjonsprodukt
Antall sider
227

Forfatter
Foreword by

Biographical note

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the MIT.