This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century...
This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the 'biolinguistic' approach that has guided Chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind.
哲理语法所关心的不是语料的积累，而是在关于人类语言与思维本质的解释性假设基础上对语言使用的事实做出说明。所以，哲理语法具有解释性......
Du marsais的理论认为，当身体器官生成和感知信号与其表层结构时，潜在的深层结构伴随语言形式的抽象的组织是“存在于心智之中”的。而将深层结构与表层结构联系起来的转换运作实际上是实实在在的在心智运作。人的心智在生成和理解句子时完成这些运作。这种区分是根本性的。因为这意味着人的心智中必然存在着一个固定的生成性原则系统。这一原则系统以一定的方式确定并将深层结构与表层结构联系起来。换言之，这就是话语生成和理解时使用的一种语法。这种语法也代表着潜在的语言能力。
语法生成一套特定的结构是指语法精确地限定这套结构。在这一意义上，语法生成一套“结构描写”，这种结构描写是一种抽象之物。它决定特定的语音和语义，以及影响语音和语义之间关系的一切形式属性和结构。乔氏引入了深层结构和表层结构。前者具有很大的抽象性，是一种心理的结构，主要由范畴和短语系统构成。后者是构成语言表达式的短语和短语所属的范畴的表征。 (查看原文)
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