Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521881765
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Tracing the development of linguistic theory from Descartes to Wilhelm von Humboldt, Chomsky's book is one of the most original and profound studies of language and mind ever written. This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century.

Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139476661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century. It has been made more accessible to a larger audience; all the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date. The relationship between the original edition (published in 1966) and contemporary biolinguistic work is also explained. This challenging volume is an important contribution to the study of language and mind, and to the history of these studies since the end of the sixteenth century.

Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation
ISBN: 9781877275456
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
As James McGilvray remarks in his introduction to this new edition of Cartesian Linguistics, the book was largely ignored and indeed denounced when first published in 1966. One likely reason why the first edition was ignored is that it contained many untranslated quotations from French and German authors. For this new edition these passages have all been translated into English. Perhaps the main reason why it was denounced is that Cartesian Linguistics contains, implicitly if not explicitly, trenchant criticisms of empiricist theories about linguistics and the mind. Due largely to Chomsky's efforts, these are not so dominant now as they were when the first edition appeared in 1966, although they still command the attention of researchers and the public imagination. In his introduction Professor McGilvray focuses on the contrast between rationalist and empiricist approaches to language and the mind. He discusses at length the two most distinctive features of what he calls Chomsky's "rationalist-romantic" approach: its emphasis on linguistic creativity and its insistence that this creativity can be explained only by assuming that humans are endowed with innate concepts and mental faculties. In the course of the discussion he connects Chomsky's early treatment of these themes with his later development of them, and with Chomsky's well-known views on politics and education.

Evaluating Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Christina Behme
Publisher: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistiques à Potsdam
ISBN: 9783631645512
Category : Cartesian linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The book evaluates Noam Chomsky's contributions to linguistics and focuses on the historic justification for Cartesian Linguistics, the evolution of Chomsky's theorizing, empirical language acquisition work, and computational modeling of language learning. It is shown that calling Chomsky's linguistic Cartesian cannot be historically justified.

Psychology of Language and Thought

Author: Robert W. Rieber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468436449
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
The fact that one would contemplate publication of a book such as this indicates both the maturity and the growth of activity that have taken place in the field of psycholinguistics over the past few decades. More over, the fact that psycholinguists and/or scholars of the history of ideas are interested in the history of their subject clearly demonstrates that much has been accomplished, and the time is indeed ripe for the reassess ment of whence we have come. In addition, perhaps this interest in our historical past suggests that psycholinguistics is at a critical stage in its development. There are many scholars who believe that this critical stage manifests itself primarily in a search for a new paradigm. It would seem only reasonable to suggest that when members of a profession are search ing for something new, more than likely they will take time to reflect on the past in the hope that it will facilitate the fulfillment of their quest. This book as such reflects a wide-ranging search for historical roots over a millenium of research in the psychology of language and thought. Furthermore, it also reflects an attempt to open the context by introducing the broader perspectives of the history of ideas and the history of science together with their reassessment of the method of science motivated from within psychology itself.

Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creativity (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Science of Language

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107379229
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Noam Chomsky is one of the most influential thinkers of our time, yet his views are often misunderstood. In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concerning language, human nature and politics. In dialogue with James McGilvray, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Chomsky takes up a wide variety of topics – the nature of language, the philosophies of language and mind, morality and universality, science and common sense, and the evolution of language. McGilvray's extensive commentary helps make this incisive set of interviews accessible to a variety of readers. The volume is essential reading for those involved in the study of language and mind, as well as anyone with an interest in Chomsky's ideas.

Cartesian Linguistics

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107199781
Category : Cartesian linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description

Combinatory Linguistics

Author: Cem Bozsahin
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311029687X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
The book examines to what extent the mediating relation between constituents and their semantics can arise from combinatory knowledge of words. It traces the roots of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, and uses the theory to promote a Humean question in linguistics and cognitive science: Why do we see limited constituency and dependency in natural languages, despite their diversity and potential infinity? A potential answer is that constituents and dependencies might have arisen from a single resource: adjacency. The combinatory formulation of adjacency constrains possible grammars.

Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

Author: Margaret Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134388543
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
This book discusses how scholars in the west have conceived that human languages share important properties, and how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning.