Cartesian Linguistics
Subtitle: a Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780511506857
Subjects: Creativity (Linguistics); Generative grammar; Cartesian linguistics
Description: This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the third edition; Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Creative aspect of language use; Deep and surface structure; Description and explanation in linguistics; Acquisition and use of language; Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Index;