by Noam Chomsky
articulation 126–127
combinatory principles 16, 18; see also transformational rules
computer modeling of 24
evolution and development of 33, 34, 119
inner and outer aspects of 79, 84–86
mechanical explanation of 61, 62, 63
natural order in 132
novelty, coherence and relevance of 61
patterns and dispositions in 76
poetical quality of 68
principles of 93, 101, 106
rationalist–romantic strategy for investigating 15, 18, 118
stimulus-free character of 60, 65, 66, 67, 68, 76, 120
structure of 93, 97, 107
and thought 77, 78
unboundedness 39, 42, 60, 68, 120
language competence 118, 119
language faculty 49, 50, 59, 103, 115; see also innate processes
language structure 93, 107
Latin, replacement with the vernacular 77
learning, theory of 102, 103
Leibniz, G. W. 100–101, 143
Lewis, David 11
Lewontin, R. C. 34
lexicon 14, 70I-language 47
linguistics 1, 107, 140accommodation to biology 18, 19, 24–35
descriptive 93–97
development of 108
explanation in 93–97, 141
history of 57
Humboldt’s theory of 69–72
minimalist program 25, 29, 32, 119
modern 74, 92
premodern 137
progress in 19–20
Loebner competition 40–41
mathematics 11, 36
meaning 8, 11, 13, 81cognitive and emotive 138
internalist theory of 14
and reference 96
theory of 13
media, corporate-run 52, 117
mental entities 6, 107; see also concepts ideas mind
Merge operation 29, 32, 42, 119
methodological dualism 21, 22, 23
Mill, J. S. 132
mind 1, 3, 18, 38, 104, 121, 128computational theory of 45–48
creativity and 45
and deep structure 91
Descartes and 44, 60, 61
empiricist view of 23
and the external world 15
internalist study of 3
and language 76, 77, 98
mind–body problem 45, 79
modularity of 42, 43
other minds 40–41, 61–63, 65, 66, 114
perception and volition 78
philosophy of 102
rationalist–romantic view of 4, 15
rationalist theory of 98
representational theory of 12, 110
romantic theories of 118
science of 1, 6–35
spontaneity of 69
morphogenesis 33
Morris, William C. 111
names, proper, as rigid designators 9
nativism 3, 6–18, 45, 110
natural languages 131case systems 87
concepts expressed in 16
deep structure and surface structure 87, 88
meaning 12
proper names 10
reference 9
rules or principles 29
structures of 29, 129
universal features of 142
natural rights 73, 129, 130
neural nets 16, 22, 23, 110, 111, 113
Newton, Isaac 44, 45
Nim Chimpsky 40
nouns 8, 9, 83, 96
parameters 30–33, 47
perception 78
perception, theory of 102, 103, 104–105, 106, 116
philosophy 8, 115
phrase structure grammar 27, 29, 86
Platonism 100, 101–102, 142, 143
Plato’s Problem 14, 27, 28, 29solution to 30, 31, 32, 33
poetry 68–69, 125
political institutions 51, 52
political theory 73–74
politics 48–52
Port-Royal Grammar 25, 26, 84–86, 94, 95, 96adverbs 88
case systems 87
deep structure and surface structure 26, 86, 134
propositions 79–81
relative clauses 83, 96
syntax 78
verb systems 83
Port-Royal Logic 81, 86, 87
Postal, P. M. 137
poverty of the stimulus observations 2, 3, 5, 22, 46, 120and creativity observations 4, 6–18, 24
Descartes and 65, 116
language 5
power 49, 51, 73
primates, language and 40
problem solving 37
progress 19–20
pronouns, relative 83
propositions 79–81, 83, 135and deep structure 80
essential and incident 81
Proudhon, P.-J. 132
psychology 2, 98, 100, 102, 107
questions 85, 88, 134
Quine, W. V. O. 22, 112
rationalism 1, 102, 110
rationalist–romantic strategy for investigating language 4, 6, 13, 22educational implications of 50
political implications of 50
reason 34, 35, 50, 67, 87Descartes and 20, 41, 60, 66, 67
politics and 50
Schlegel and 101
recursion 32, 34, 42, 85, 119, 120
reference 8, 9, 12, 81, 96
relative clauses 80, 81, 83, 95explicative 82, 83, 84
restrictive 82, 83, 84
Vaugelas’s rule 95, 96
rights, human 74
rights, natural 73, 129, 130
romanticism 1, 6, 72, 76, 101, 105, 146
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 130–131
Russell, Bertrand 115
Ryle, Gilbert 64, 65
Schlegel, A. W. 67–69, 72, 101, 124, 127art 125–126
mechanical form and organic form 72
poetry 125
Schlegel, Friedrich 76
science 3, 11, 94, 96; see also theories and common sense, 19, 112
of evolution 33
of language 2, 4, 6–35, 41, 140;see also linguistics
scientific method 2, 18, 24, 36, 46
self-expression 70, 71, 76
self-realization 73, 130
Sellars, W. 12, 22, 112
semantics 11, 12, 15, 136, 137, 139; see also meaning
sentences 14, 62, 75, 76
simplicity 19, 30, 37, 113
social organization 35, 51, 130
social theory 73–74
speechinterpretation of 105–106
perception of 89, 91, 137
structuralism 74
syllogisms 87
syntactic principles
syntax 14, 78, 85, 89–91, 139
theoriesconditions of adequacy 20
construction of 37
descriptive adequacy of 19, 27, 30, 37
explanatory adequacy of 19, 27, 37
formalization of 19, 27, 37
objectivity of 19
progress 19
simplicity of 19, 30, 37, 113
Thompson, D’Arcy 33
thought 20, 70, 77, 78, 88forms of 85
judgment and 76–77, 79
training 49, 101, 122
transformational generative grammar 83, 107, 136
transformational rules 27, 81, 83, 89, 92, 142
Turing, Alan 33, 40, 114
unboundedness 39, 42
universal grammar 5, 21, 28, 30, 32Port-Royal grammarians 26, 78, 96, 98, 107, 118
Vaugelas, Claude Favre de 95, 96, 141
verbs 83, 86, 136
vision 3, 46–47, 116
volition 78
Waddington, Charles 33
Wilkins, J. 76, 140
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 12, 20, 140
word order 76, 90
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