Ignorance of language /
The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The Chomskian revolution in linguistics gave rise to a new orthodoxy about mind and language. Michael Devitt throws down a provocative challenge to that orthodoxy. What is linguistics about? What role should linguistic intuitions play in constructing grammars? What is innate about language? Is there a 'language faculty'? These questions are crucial to our developing understanding of ourselves; Michael Devitt offers refreshingly original answers. He argues that linguistics is aboutlinguistic reality and is not part of psychology; that linguistic rules are not represented in the mind; that speak. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191530616 0191530611 0199250960 9780199250967 9780199250974 0199250979 9780191603945 0191603945 1281164062 9781281164063 9786611164065 6611164065 1435622480 9781435622487 |