Rules and representations
By: by Noam Chomsky.
Series: Woodbridge lectures delivered at Columbia University  no. 11, 1978; Woodbridge lectures, Columbia University -- no. 11, 1978.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Languages -- Philosophy; Psycholinguistics
Description: In this influential and controversial work Chomsky draws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in language. He arrives at his well-known position that there is a universal grammar, genetically determined, structured in the human mind, and common to all human languages. Aside from his examination of the various principles of the universal grammar -- its "rules and representations" -- Chomsky considers the biological basis of language capabilities and the possibility of studying mental structures and capacities in the manner of the natural sciences. Finally, he also explores whether there may be similar "grammars" of perception, art, human nature, scientific reasoning, and the unconscious. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.