Chomsky: Rules and Representations (Cloth)

CHOMSKY, N

ISBN 10: 0231048262 / ISBN 13: 9780231048262

Published by Columbia University Press., 1980

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299 S. Umschlag berieben, bestossen, fleckig und nachgedunkelt mit Randläsuren. Kapitale und Ecken betossen. Vorbesitzername auf Vorsatzblatt, einige wenige Bleistiftanstreichungen, sonst gut. N18-2 ISBN 0231048262 Wichtiger Hinweis: Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung zur Zeit KEIN Versand in EU-Länder. Due to EPR, there is currently no delivery to EU-countries. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 650.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Chomsky: Rules and Representations (Cloth)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press.
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231048262
• ISBN 13: 9780231048262
• Binding: 22*15 cm. OLeinenband, OSchu.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 650 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Englischsprachige Literatur

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Synopsis

As Norbert Hornstein writes in his foreword, "it underestimates Chomsky's impact in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology to describe it as immense." In Rules and Representations, Noam Chomsky lays out many of the concepts that have made his approach to linguistics and human cognition so instrumental to our understanding of language.

In this influential and controversial work Chomsky draws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in language. He arrives at his well-known position that there is a universal grammar, genetically determined, structured in the human mind, and common to all human languages. Aside from his examination of the various principles of the universal grammar -- its "rules and representations" -- Chomsky considers the biological basis of language capabilities and the possibility of studying mental structures and capacities in the manner of the natural sciences. Finally, he also explores whether there may be similar "grammars" of perception, art, human nature, scientific reasoning, and the unconscious.

Based on Chomsky's lively 1978 Woodbridge Lectures, this edition, first published in 1980, contains revised versions of the original lectures and two new essays. It also includes an extensive foreword by Norbert Hornstein, discussing Chomsky's ideas and their wide-ranging impact.

Book Description

In Rules and Representations, first published in 1980, Noam Chomsky lays out many of the concepts that have made his approach to linguistics and human cognition so instrumental to our understanding of language.Chomsky arrives at his well-known position that there is a universal grammar, structured in the human mind and common to all human languages. Based on Chomsky's 1978 Woodbridge Lectures, this edition contains revised versions of the lectures and two new essays.