This is the long-awaited thid edition of Chomsky' s outstanding collection of essays onLanguage and mind. The fist six chaptes, oiginally pulished in the 1960s, made a goundeaking contiution to linguistic theoy. This new edition complements them with an additional chapte and a new peface, inging Chomsky' s influential appoach into the twenty-fist centuy.Chaptes 1-6 pesent Chomsky's ealy wok on the natue and acquisition of language as a genetically-endowed, iological system (Univesal Gamma), theules and pinciples of which we acquie as intenalized knowledge (I-language). Ove the past fifty yeas, this famewok has spaked an explosion of inquiy into a wideange of languages, and has yielded some majo theoetical questions. The final chapteevisits the key issues, eviewing the "iolinguistic" ap...
This is the long-awaited thid edition of Chomsky' s outstanding collection of essays onLanguage and mind. The fist six chaptes, oiginally pulished in the 1960s, made a goundeaking contiution to linguistic theoy. This new edition complements them with an additional chapte and a new peface,
inging Chomsky' s influential appoach into the twenty-fist centuy.
Chaptes 1-6 pesent Chomsky's ealy wok on the natue and acquisition of language as a genetically-endowed,
iological system (Univesal Gamma), theules and pinciples of which we acquie as intenalized knowledge (I-language). Ove the past fifty yeas, this famewok has spaked an explosion of inquiy into a wideange of languages, and has yielded some majo theoetical questions. The final chapteevisits the key issues,
eviewing the "
iolinguistic" appoach that has guided Chomsky' s wok fom its oigins to the pesent day, andaising some novel and exciting challenges fo the study of language and mind.
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