The Chomskyan Turn

Noam Chomsky's work has had a decisive influence on the development of linguistics and more broadly on the study of mind and language. This book, which contains two new papers by Chomsky, assesses that 'Chomskyan Turn' in linguistics and the cognitive sciences. The articles by Chomsky Linguistics and Adjacent Fields and Linguistics and Cognitive Science are particularly valuable both in reviewing the current state of the generative enterprise and in presenting his new 'functional' approach to principles of Universal Grammar. The concluding papers focus on syntactic issues in Government and Binding.

List of Contributors vii Preface viii Part I 1 Linguistics and Adjacent Fields: A Personal View 3 Noam Chomsky 2 Linguistics and Cognitive Science: Problems and Mysteries 26 Noam Chomsky Part II 3 Why Phonology is Different 56 Sylvain Bromberger and Morris Halle 4 Language and Brain: Redefining the Goals and Methodology of Linguistics 78 Victoria A. Fromkin 5 Grammar, Meaning and Indeterminacy 104 Norbert Hornstein 6 Pragmatics and Chomsky's Research Programme 122 Asa Kasher 7 'Cartesian' Linguistics? 150 Justin Leiber 8 Psychological Reality of Grammars 182 Robert J. Matthews 9 Rules and Principles in Historical Development of Generative Syntax 200 Frederick J. Newmeyer 10 Rules and Representation: Chomsky and Representational Realism 231 Zenon Pylyshyn 11 On the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus 252 Ken Wexler Part III 12 On the Status of Referential Indices 273 Luigi Rizzi 13 Concepts of Logical Form in Linguistics and Philosophy 300 Shalom Lappin 14 Syntax, Semantics and Logical Form 334 Robert May 15 Non-Quantificational LF 360 Tanya Reinhart 16 LF and the Structure of the Grammar: Comments 385 Susan D. Rothstein Subject Index 396 Name Index 404