Companion to Chomsky

Nicholas Allott is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Oslo. His work focuses on pragmatics, inference and rationality in communication, word meaning and lexical modulation, legal language and interpretation, and the philosophy of linguistics. His publications include Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (with Neil Smith) (2016).Terje Lohndal is Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His main areas of research are comparative grammar, multilingualism, and the history of generative linguistics. He has published numerous papers, and several books, among them, Phrase Structure and Argument Structure (2014).Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xv1 Synoptic Introduction 1Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey2 Biographical Sketch 18Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges ReyPart I Historical Development of Linguistics 233 From the Origins of Government and Binding to the Current State of Minimalism 25Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal4 The Enduring Discoveries of Generative Syntax 52Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and James Griffiths5 The Chomsky Hierarchy 74Tim Hunter6 Naturalism, Internalism, and Nativism: The Legacy of The Sound Pattern of English 96Charles Reiss and Veno Volenec7 Language as a Branch of Psychology: Chomsky and Cognitive Science 109Lila GleitmanPart II Contemporary Issues in Syntax 1238 The Architecture of the Computation 125David Adger9 Merge and Features: The Engine of Syntax 140Peter Svenonius10 On Chomsky’s Legacy in the Study of Linguistic Diversity 158Mark Baker11 Parameters and Linguistic Variation 172Michelle Sheehan12 Constraints on Grammatical Dependencies 190Gereon Müller13 Chomsky’s Influence on Historical Linguistics: From Universal Grammar to Third Factors 210Elly van Gelderen14 Second Language Acquisition 222Roumyana Slabakova15 Multilingualism and Chomsky’s Generative Grammar 232Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, and Jason RothmanPart III Comparisons with other Frameworks 24316 The View from Declarative Syntax 245Peter Sells17 How Statistical Learning Can Play Well with Universal Grammar 267Lisa S. Pearl18 Chomsky and Usage-Based Linguistics 287Frederick J. NewmeyerPart IV Processing and Acquisition 30519 Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theory 307Dave Kush and Brian Dillon20 Neuroscience and Syntax 325Emiliano Zaccarella and Patrick C. Trettenbrein21 Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition 348Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton22 Chomsky and Signed Languages 364Diane Lillo-Martin23 Atypical Acquisition 377Neil Smith and Ianthi TsimpliPart V Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language 39124 Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition 393John Collins25 Chomsky on Meaning and Reference 404Paul Pietroski26 Chomsky on Semantics 416Michael Glanzberg27 Chomsky and Pragmatics 433Nicholas Allott and Deirdre WilsonPart VI Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind 44928 Nativism 451Georges Rey29 The Deep Forces That Shape Language and the Poverty of the Stimulus 462Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin, and Rosalind Thornton30 Chomsky on the Evolution of the Language Faculty: Presentation and Perspectives for Further Research 476Anne Reboul31 Chomsky and Intentionality 488John Collins and Georges Rey32 The Mind–Body Relation: Problem, Mystery, or What? 503Joseph LevinePart VII Methodological and other Explanatory Issues 51533 Chomsky’s “Galilean” Explanatory Style 517Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey34 Chomsky and Fodor on Modularity 529Nicholas Allott and Neil Smith35 Linguistic Judgments as Evidence 544Steven Gross36 Chomsky’s Problem/Mystery Distinction 557John Collins37 Knowledge, Morality, and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky 567Joshua Cohen and Joel RogersPart VIII Reflections 58138 Reflections 583Noam ChomskyAuthor Index 595Subject Index 599