'Mr Robinson stands for the wholeness of language, and for the unity of language with the totality of human thought, feeling and being, both individual and social.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'The science of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits of transformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, or the strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguistic universals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyan semantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: making propositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning; (iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics and philosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics and everything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.

'Mr Robinson stands for the wholeness of language, and for the unity of language with the totality of human thought, feeling and being, both individual and social.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'The science of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits of transformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, or the strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguistic universals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyan semantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: making propositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning; (iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics and philosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics and everything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.

'Mr Robinson stands for the wholeness of language, and for the unity of language with the totality of human thought, feeling and being, both individual and social.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'The science of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits of transformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, or the strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguistic universals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyan semantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: making propositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning; (iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics and philosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics and everything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.