A Companion to Chomsky
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Overview
Widely considered to be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky has revolutionized modern linguistics. His thought has had a profound impact upon the philosophy of language, mind, and science, as well as the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science which his work helped to establish. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to his substantial body of work and the range of its influence, an international assembly of prominent linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists reflect upon the interdisciplinary reach of Chomsky's intellectual contributions.
Balancing theoretical rigor with accessibility to the non-specialist, the Companion is organized into eight sections—including the historical development of Chomsky's theories and the current state of the art, comparison with rival usage-based approaches, and the relation of his generative approach to work on linguistic processing, acquisition, semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. Later chapters address Chomsky's rationalist critique of behaviorism and related empiricist approaches to psychology, as well as his insistence upon a "Galilean" methodology in cognitive science. Following a brief discussion of the relation of his work in linguistics to his work on political issues, the book concludes with an essay written by Chomsky himself, reflecting on the history and character of his work in his own words.
A significant contribution to the study of Chomsky's thought, A Companion to Chomsky is an indispensable resource for philosophers, linguists, psychologists, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers with interest in Noam Chomsky's intellectual legacy as one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119598701 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 04/27/2021 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy |
Pages: | 640 |
Product dimensions: | 0.39(w) x 0.39(h) x 0.39(d) |
About the Author
Terje Lohndal is Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His main areas of research are comparative grammar, multilingualism, and the history of generative linguistics. He has published numerous papers, and several books, among them, Phrase Structure and Argument Structure (2014).
Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xv
1 Synoptic Introduction 1 Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
2 Biographical Sketch 18 Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
Part I Historical Development of Linguistics 23
3 From the Origins of Government and Binding to the Current State of Minimalism 25 Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal
4 The Enduring Discoveries of Generative Syntax 52 Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and James Griffiths
5 The Chomsky Hierarchy 74 Tim Hunter
6 Naturalism, Internalism, and Nativism: <What> The Legacy of The Sound Pattern of English <Should Be> 96 Charles Reiss and Veno Volenec
7 Language as a Branch of Psychology: Chomsky and Cognitive Science 109 Lila Gleitman
Part II Contemporary Issues in Syntax 123
8 The Architecture of the Computation 125 David Adger
9 Merge and Features: The Engine of Syntax 140 Peter Svenonius
10 On Chomsky’s Legacy in the Study of Linguistic Diversity 158 Mark Baker
11 Parameters and Linguistic Variation 172 Michelle Sheehan
12 Constraints on Grammatical Dependencies 190 Gereon Müller
13 Chomsky’s Influence on Historical Linguistics: From Universal Grammar to Third Factors 210 Elly van Gelderen
14 Second Language Acquisition 222 Roumyana Slabakova
15 Multilingualism and Chomsky’s Generative Grammar 232 Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, and Jason Rothman
Part III Comparisons with other Frameworks 243
16 The View from Declarative Syntax 245 Peter Sells
17 How Statistical Learning Can Play Well with Universal Grammar 267 Lisa S. Pearl
18 Chomsky and Usage-Based Linguistics 287 Frederick J. Newmeyer
Part IV Processing and Acquisition 305
19 Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theory 307 Dave Kush and Brian Dillon
20 Neuroscience and Syntax 325 Emiliano Zaccarella and Patrick C. Trettenbrein
21 Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition 348 Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton
22 Chomsky and Signed Languages 364 Diane Lillo-Martin
23 Atypical Acquisition 377 Neil Smith and Ianthi Tsimpli
Part V Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language 391
24 Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition 393 John Collins
25 Chomsky on Meaning and Reference 404 Paul Pietroski
26 Chomsky on Semantics 416 Michael Glanzberg
27 Chomsky and Pragmatics 433 Nicholas Allott and Deirdre Wilson
Part VI Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind 449
28 Nativism 451 Georges Rey
29 The Deep Forces That Shape Language and the Poverty of the Stimulus 462 Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin, and Rosalind Thornton
30 Chomsky on the Evolution of the Language Faculty: Presentation and Perspectives for Further Research 476 Anne Reboul
31 Chomsky and Intentionality 488 John Collins and Georges Rey
32 The Mind–Body Relation: Problem, Mystery, or What? 503 Joseph Levine
Part VII Methodological and other Explanatory Issues 515
33 Chomsky’s “Galilean” Explanatory Style 517 Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
34 Chomsky and Fodor on Modularity 529 Nicholas Allott and Neil Smith
35 Linguistic Judgments as Evidence 544 Steven Gross
36 Chomsky’s Problem/Mystery Distinction 557 John Collins
37 Knowledge, Morality, and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky 567 Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Part VIII Reflections 581
38 Reflections 583 Noam Chomsky
Author Index 595
Subject Index 599