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"Noam Chomsky is justly famous for his revolutionary contributions to linguistics, psychology and philosophy. He is presently in his 92nd year, and we thought it high time to provide an overview of the major achievements of his now more than sixty-year-old research program and its prospects for the future. This is particularly pressing in the light of persistent rumors, encouraged by a number of authors , that his program has proven bankrupt, "completely wrong" and has been replaced by various sorts of proposals in general statistical learning and "functionalist/constructionist" linguistic theories (which we return to below). We think these rumors are seriously mistaken. To be sure, the theory has evolved, displaying the kinds of complexities, revisions and increasing depth typical of any ongoing science. However, Chomsky's ideas and those of others working in his "generativist" framework are at the center of much of the most successful current work on the grammar of human language, and his work has been influential across many other areas of linguistics, including research on processing, language acquisition, language diversity and semantics. His program is one of the most important in the history of linguistics, and it has profound and enduring significance for psychology and philosophy, and indeed for our understanding of human nature generally"--
Synoptic introduction / Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal & Georges Rey -- Biographical sketch / Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal & Georges Rey -- Historical development of linguistics. From the origins of Government and Binding to the currentstate of minimalism / Artemis Alexiadou & Terje Lohndal -- Enduring discoveries of generative syntax / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng & James Griffith -- The Chomsky hierarchy / Tim Hunter -- Naturalism, internalism and nativism : What the legacy of the sound pattern of English should be / Charles Reiss & Veno Volenec -- Language as a branch of psychology : Chomsky and cognitive science / Lila Gleitman -- Contemporary issues in syntax. The architecture of the computation / David Adger -- Merge and features : the engine of syntax / Peter Svenonius -- On Chomsky's legacy in the study of linguistic diversity / Mark Baker -- Parameters and linguistic variation / Michelle Sheehan -- Constraints on grammatical dependencies / Gereon Müller -- Chomsky's influence on historical linguistics : from Universal Grammar to Third Factors / Elly van Gelderen -- Second language acquisition / Roumyana Slabakova -- Multilingualism and Chomsky's Generative Grammar / Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco & Jason Rothman -- Comparisons with other frameworks. The view from declarative syntax / Peter Sells -- How statistical learning can play well with Universal Grammar / Lisa Pearl -- Chomsky and usage-based linguistics / Frederick Newmeyer. Processing and acquisition. Sentence processing and syntactic theory / Dave Kush & Brian Dillon -- Neuroscience and syntax / Emiliano Zaccarella & Patrick C. Trettenbein -- Universal Grammar and language acquisition / Stephen Crain & Rosalind Thornton -- Chomsky and signed languages / Diane Lillo-Martin -- Atypical acquisition / Neil Smith & Ianthi Tsimpli -- Semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language. Chomsky and the analytical tradition / John Collins -- Chomsky on meaning and reference / Paul Pietroski -- Chomsky on semantics / Michael Glanzberg -- Chomsky and pragmatics / Nicholas Allott & Deirdre Wilson -- Cognitive science and philosophy of mind. Nativism / Georges Rey -- The deep forces that shape language and the poverty of the stimulus / Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin & Rosalind Thornton -- Chomsky on the evolution of the language faculty : presentation and perspectives for further research / Anne Reboul -- Chomsky and intentionality / John Collins & Georges Rey -- The mind-body relation : problem, mystery, or what? / Joseph Levine -- Methodological and other explanatory issues. Chomsky's Galilean explanatory style / Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal & Georges Rey -- Chomsky and Fodor on modularity / Nicholas Allott & Neil Smith -- Linguistic judgments as evidence / Steven Gross -- Chomsky's problem-mystery distinction / John Collins -- Knowledge, morality and hope : the social thought of Noam Chomsky / Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers -- Reflections. Philosophical-historical sketch / Noam Chomsky.
edited by Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, Georges Rey.
Includes bibliographical references and index.