Chomsky Noam. The Minimalist Program

Издательство CSLI Publications, 1998, -212 pp. During the last few years, a new approach to language processing has started to emerge This approach, which has become known under the name of "Data Oriented Parsing" or "DOP"1, embodies the assumption that human language comprehension and production works with representations of concrete past language experiences, rather than with abstract grammatical rules The models that instantiate this approach...

N. Y. : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.— xviii, 190 p. This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky’s influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1—6 present Ch...

In this profound work Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind science. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualizing the work for the 21st century. All the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date.

Published 1965, 131 pages. Contents: Methodological Preliminaries. Categories and Relations in Syntactic Theory. Deep Structures and Grammatical Transformations. Some Residual Problems. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

The first chapter provides an introduction to some basic con- cepts of linguistic theory and to some elements of the history of the fieldwhich are crucial for understanding certain theoretical questions addressed in the following chapters. The second chapter is related to a particular occasion. Chomsky’s sojourn in Siena was organized twenty years after his visit to the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, an event which, through the memorable Pisa...

By V.J. Cook and Mark Newson, 3d edition BlackWell Publishing 185 pages Contents 1. The Nature of Universal Grammar 2. Principles, Parameters and Language Acquisition 3. Structure in the Government/Binding Model 4. Movement in the Government/Binding Model

Pages: 432 Publisher: Oxford University Press (2009) Quality: good: pdf This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the bi...

Publisher: Basic Books. Publication date: 1995. Number of pages: 256. Format / Quality: DJVU. From Library Journal. In the late 1950s, Noam Chomsky revolutionized linguistics by proposing that the infant's ability to learn language cannot be explained by simple learning principles but is dependent upon the existence of complex, innate mental structures. Jackendoff explains the current state of Chomskyan theory by organizing his book around the qu...

Fundamentals of Philosophy Pages: 412 Publisher: Routledge, Second Edition (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.) Quality: good: pdf This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches t...

'When, why, and how did language evolve? ' 'Why do only humans have language? ' This book looks at these and other questions about the origins and evolution of language. It does so via a rich diversity of perspectives, including social, cultural, archaeological, palaeoanthropological, musicological, anatomical, neurobiological, primatological, and linguistic. Among the subjects it considers are: how far sociality is a prerequisite for language; t...