The New Grammarians' Funeral : A Critique of Noam Chomsky's Linguistics (Paperback)

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.