Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor of linguistics at MIT. He is the author of many books on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, and politics. Norbert Hornstein is professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several books and the coeditor (with Louise M. Antony) of Chomsky and His Critics.

From time to time ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside of linguistics to some theses stated... by Noam Chomsky. -- Ian Hacking New York Review of Books Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today... reading Chomsky on linguistics one repeatedly has the impression of attending to one of the more powerful thinkers that ever lived. -- Paul Robinson New York Times Book Review

• Foreword by Norbert Hornstein Preface Part I 1. Mind and Body 2. Structures, Capacities, and Conventions 3. Knowledge of Grammar 4. Some Elements of Grammar Part II 5. On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities 6. Language and Unconscious Knowledge Notes Index

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor of linguistics at MIT. He is the author of many books on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, and politics. Norbert Hornstein is professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several books and the coeditor (with Louise M. Antony) of Chomsky and His Critics.

From time to time ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside of linguistics to some theses stated... by Noam Chomsky. -- Ian Hacking New York Review of Books Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today... reading Chomsky on linguistics one repeatedly has the impression of attending to one of the more powerful thinkers that ever lived. -- Paul Robinson New York Times Book Review

• Foreword by Norbert Hornstein Preface Part I 1. Mind and Body 2. Structures, Capacities, and Conventions 3. Knowledge of Grammar 4. Some Elements of Grammar Part II 5. On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities 6. Language and Unconscious Knowledge Notes Index

Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor of linguistics at MIT. He is the author of many books on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, and politics. Norbert Hornstein is professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several books and the coeditor (with Louise M. Antony) of Chomsky and His Critics.

From time to time ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside of linguistics to some theses stated... by Noam Chomsky. -- Ian Hacking New York Review of Books Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today... reading Chomsky on linguistics one repeatedly has the impression of attending to one of the more powerful thinkers that ever lived. -- Paul Robinson New York Times Book Review

• Foreword by Norbert Hornstein Preface Part I 1. Mind and Body 2. Structures, Capacities, and Conventions 3. Knowledge of Grammar 4. Some Elements of Grammar Part II 5. On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities 6. Language and Unconscious Knowledge Notes Index