Challenging Chomsky; The generative garden game

Botha, Rudolf P.

ISBN 10: 0631166211 / ISBN 13: 9780631166214

Published by Blackwell Pub, 1989

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1989, 248 blz. Hardcover met stofomslag, netjes, maar voorin staat een naam geschreven en heeft wat roestvlekjes aan de bovenzijde.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Chomsky; The generative garden game
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631166211
• ISBN 13: 9780631166214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This study combines a description of the development of Chomsky's theory of linguistics with a satirical account of some of the debates to which it has given rise. It explains how Chomsky's theory fits into the wider study of language, his beliefs about language and mind, and the relation between his linguistic ideas and philosophy, mathematics and the natural sciences. The satirical part of the book describes the challenges to Chomsky's ideas in the context of a metaphorical maze.