Analyzes the moral grammar hypothesis, showing how some of Rawls' ideas about the linguistic analogy, together with thought experiments can be used to improve our understanding of moral and legal judgements.
This first serious and extended development of a formal and precise theory of language learnability will interest researchers in psychology and linguistics, and is recommended for use in graduate courses in language acquisition, linguistic ...
Thirty Million Theories of Grammar
Many textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on different assumptions and a different history.
Por el contrario , la robustez intelectual de Chomsky no tiene nada que envidiar a la de nadie , muerto o vivo , y sus ... junto al último libro de Fanón , a la autobiografía de Malcolm X , a la invectiva de McLuhan contra los medios de ...
Syntactic Structure and Silence: A Minimalist Theory of Syntax‐Phonology Interface
Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood ...
Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar
Knowledge Of Meaning: An Introduction To Semantic Theory
The book investigates the nature and properties of indirect objects and develops a typology of double object constructions on the basis of an examination of a variety of data within and across languages.