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Index
accommodation of linguistics to biology 18, 19, 24–35 progress in 25, 35
acquisition of language 14, 30, 98–106, 144empiricist accounts of 21, 144
internalized rules and 107
and Platonism 100, 101–102
preconditions for 107
rationalist approach to 143
third factor considerations 33
adverbs 86, 88
animal language 63, 64, 69, 120, 124
appropriateness of linguistic actions 43–44, 61, 70, 120
Arnauld, A. 87, 140
art 68, 94, 102, 125–126
Beauzée, N. 88, 89, 93–94, 96
Bentham, J. 131
biolinguistics 4, 24–35
biologyaccommodation of linguistics to 18, 19, 24–35
Goethe’s ‘Urform’ 72–73
growth 33
Bloomfield, L. 65, 123, 126, 137
body and mind distinction 79
Bougeant, G. H. 63–64
Cartesian linguistics 57, 58, 76, 118
case systems 87
children 5, 15, 28acquisition of language 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 101–102, 144
linguistic creativity 7
Chomsky, Noam 18–24 politics 51
cognition 4, 34, 103, 104Descartes’s theory of 103, 104, 121
cognitive science 12, 23
Coleridge, S. T. 72, 105, 128
combinatory principles of language 16, 18
commands 88
Common Notions 98, 99, 100
common sense 20, 36, 37, 112, 115
communication 71, 76, 120, 124
concepts 10, 16, 18computer modeling of 24
innate 7, 37, 45, 46
lexical 14
naturalistic theories of 22
sentential 14
conjunctions 89
connectionism 23, 110, 113
Cordemoy, Géraud decreative use of language 125, 133
language acquisition 101, 133
mind 61–63, 79
Cowan, M. 73
creative use of language 4, 38–45, 59–77, 109, 125central role in human affairs 4
enjoyment of 9
explanation of 13
linguistics and 1, 2, 4, 6–18, 107
and meaning 8
reason and 34, 35
science and 115
creativity 50, 68, 75, 133
Cudworth, R. 102–105, 143, 144
D’Alembert, J. 94
data analysis, principles of 33
deep structure and surface structure 26, 27, 78–92, 97the Port-Royal grammarians and 26, 96, 134
democracy 52
denotation 8
Descartes, René 1, 36–48, 109animals and machines 38–40, 59, 65, 113
contact mechanics 38, 44, 59, 61–63, 115
creative use of language observations 4, 38–45, 125
function of language 124
ideas 37, 45, 134
language 61, 65, 66
mind 38–40, 44, 45–48, 60, 119
poverty of the stimulus observations 65, 116
reason 20, 41, 60, 66, 67
science 36–38
tests for other minds 38–40, 65, 66, 114
theory of cognition 103, 104, 121
descriptivism 140, 141
determinations 82, 84, 96
Diderot, D. 131
dispositions 65
Du Marsais, César Chesneau 87grammar 88, 93, 95, 96
semantic interpretation 139
theory of construction and syntax 89–91, 97
education 48–52, 145empiricism and 49
ellipsis 90, 134
empiricism 22, 110and the creative use of language 1, 33
and education 49
externalism 16
and human nature 48
language acquisition 16, 20, 21
methodological dualism 22, 23
and mind 4, 6, 16, 18, 23, 110
perception 105
study of cognition 23
Enlightenment views 50
evolution and development 33
experience 100, 102
explanation 27, 93–97, 107, 119, 123, 141
Fitch, Tecumseh 32
Fodor, Jerry 12, 22, 110
form, mechanical and organic 72, 74–75
Foucault, Michel 109, 112
free will 2, 35, 61, 66
freedom 2, 50, 51, 130Humboldt on 73, 130
of thought 76
Galileo, Galilei 36, 125
generalized learning procedures 16, 17, 21, 144
generative grammar 57, 69–70, 75, 105, 107, 118, 136
generative processes 69, 71, 75
generative theory of language 26, 41, 42, 70
geometrical figures 104
Goethe, J. W. von 33, 72–73
Gould, S. J. 34
government 49, 51, 73
grammaradequacy of 28
descriptive 93
formalized 27
general and particular 93–94, 98
generative 57, 75, 107, 118, 136
philosophical 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 118, 139
phrase structure 27, 29, 86
universal grammar: see universal grammar
gravitation 44
growth 33
Harnois, G. 139
Harris, James 67, 71, 78–79, 124–125, 127–128, 145
Hauser, Marc 32
Herbert of Cherbury 98, 99–100
Herder, J. G. 66, 67, 112
Herman, Edward 52, 117
Hockett, C. F. 65, 123–124
Huarte, Juan 109, 121–122, 131
human evolution 34, 48
human nature 50, 51, 66, 123–124 Humboldt on 73, 74
science of 35, 52
human needs, fundamental 51
human rights 74
Humboldt, Wilhelm von 58, 69–72, 144articulation 126–127
character of language 74, 75
education 50, 145
form of language 69–70, 71, 72, 73, 74–75, 98, 128
freedom 73, 130
human nature 73, 74
language acquisition 101–102
natural languages 129
perception 105–106
Platonism 101–102
social and political theory 73–74
&
nbsp; thought 76
Hume, David 110
I-language 47, 117
ideal types 134
ideas 81, 89, 104, 134, 135; see also concepts
imperatives 88
indefinite articles 91
indirect discourse 84
indoctrination 49
informationmeaning information 13
semantic 14
sound information 13
innate concepts 7, 37, 45, 46
innate processes 20, 28, 49, 100, 103
innovation 42, 61, 62, 75, 95, 120; see also creative use of language creativity
instincts 66, 67, 99
intellectuals 117
internalism 6–18, 45
interrogation 85, 88, 134
Kant, Immanuel 50, 105, 107, 142
Katz, J. J. 137
Kauffmann, Stuart 33
La Mettrie, J. O. de 61, 65, 77, 133
Lamy, B. 75, 79, 87, 95, 135
languageanimal language 64, 69, 120, 124
appropriateness of linguistic actions 43–44, 61, 70, 120