Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors /

Generative Grammar's Grave Foundational Errors /

This work critically examines Noam Chomsky's widely accepted ontological assumptions-now referred to as "biolinguistics"-and demonstrates that they are internally inconsistent. Notably, Chomsky himself has, at least once, acknowledged this issue. Additionally, we challenge a fundament...

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Main Author: Postal, Paul M. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 27.
Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

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Languages and Linguistics.

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Call Number: P57.I4

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Table of Contents:
  • Editorial Foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Foundational Admission
  • 1 Background
  • 2 Incoherence
  • 3 Incoherence Highlighted
  • 4 The Admission: 1
  • 5 The Admission: 2
  • 6 The Analyticity Contradiction
  • 7 Biolinguistics vs. Katz's Platonist Conception of Natural Language
  • 8 Natural Language and Knowledge of Natural Language
  • 9 Ethical Issues
  • 10 The Manufacture of Consent
  • 3 Natural Languages Are Not Generative Systems
  • Part 1: Generative Beginnings
  • Part 2: Theoretically Ignored Sentences
  • Part 3: Implications
  • 4 The One Language Claim
  • 1 A Deceptive Claim
  • 2 'Peripheral'/'Minor' Differences
  • 3 Space Alien Scientist Opinion
  • 4 Lack of Good Faith
  • 5 Lack of Motivation
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.