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: | 9781119598688 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 04/30/2021 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 540 |
File size: | 5 MB |
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 1Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
2 BiographicalSketch 18Nicholas 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 25Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal
4 The Enduring Discoveries of Generative Syntax 52Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and James Griffiths
5 The Chomsky Hierarchy 74Tim Hunter
6 Naturalism, Internalism, and Nativism: <What> The Legacy of The Sound Pattern of English <Should Be> 96Charles Reiss and Veno Volenec
7 Language as a Branch of Psychology: Chomsky and Cognitive Science 109Lila Gleitman
Part II Contemporary Issues in Syntax 123
8 The Architecture of the Computation 125David Adger
9 Merge and Features: The Engine of Syntax 140Peter Svenonius
10 On Chomsky's Legacy in the Study of Linguistic Diversity 158Mark Baker
11 Parameters and Linguistic Variation 172Michelle Sheehan
12 Constraints on Grammatical Dependencies 190Gereon Müller
13 Chomsky's Influence on Historical Linguistics: From Universal Grammar to Third Factors 210Elly van Gelderen
14 Second Language Acquisition 222Roumyana Slabakova
15 Multilingualism and Chomsky's Generative Grammar 232Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, and Jason Rothman
Part III Comparisons with Other Frameworks 243
16 The View from Declarative Syntax 245Peter Sells
17 How Statistical Learning Can PlayWell with Universal Grammar 267Lisa S. Pearl
18 Chomsky and Usage-Based Linguistics 287Frederick J. Newmeyer
Part IV Processing and Acquisition 305
19 Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theory 307Dave Kush and Brian Dillon
20 Neuroscience and Syntax 325Emiliano Zaccarella and Patrick C. Trettenbrein
21 Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition 348Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton
22 Chomsky and Signed Languages 364Diane Lillo-Martin
23 Atypical Acquisition 377Neil Smith and Ianthi Tsimpli
Part V Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language 391
24 Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition 393John Collins
25 Chomsky on Meaning and Reference 404Paul Pietroski
26 Chomsky on Semantics 416Michael Glanzberg
27 Chomsky and Pragmatics 433Nicholas Allott and Deirdre Wilson
Part VI Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind 449
28 Nativism 451Georges Rey
29 The Deep Forces That Shape Language and the Poverty of the Stimulus 462Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin, and Rosalind Thornton
30 Chomsky on the Evolution of the Language Faculty: Presentation and Perspectives for Further Research 476Anne Reboul
31 Chomsky and Intentionality 488John Collins and Georges Rey
32 The Mind-Body Relation: Problem, Mystery, or What? 503Joseph Levine
Part VII Methodological and Other Explanatory Issues 515
33 Chomsky's "Galilean" Explanatory Style 517Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
34 Chomsky and Fodor on Modularity 529Nicholas Allott and Neil Smith
35 Linguistic Judgments as Evidence 544Steven Gross
36 Chomsky's Problem/Mystery Distinction 557John Collins
37 Knowledge, Morality, and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky 567Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Part VIII Reflections 581
38 Reflections 583Noam Chomsky
Author Index 595
Subject Index 599