乔姆斯基：思想与理想 英文版PDF电子书下载

Chapter 1 The mirror of the mind 7

Linguistics as a science 8

Preface by Halliday 9

王宗炎序 10

Preface by Chomsky 13

Modularity 17

沈家煊序 20

导读 23

Competence and performance 28

Acknowledgments 34

Performance, parsing, and pragmatics 35

Evolution and innateness 38

Natural language and the language of thought 45

Chapter 2 The linguistic foundation 49

Introduction 49

The lexicon 50

Knowledge of language 50

Knowledge of language: structure 53

Knowledge of language: structural relations 54

Levels of representation 56

Constituents and rules 57

Deep structure 59

Description versus explanation 62

Government and Binding theory 69

Empty categories 76

The status of transformations 80

Principles and parameters 81

Lexical and functional categories 83

Minimalism 86

A historical progression 90

Evolution 91

Chapter 3 Psychological reality 93

Causality and observability 95

Psychological reality and the nature of evidence 97

Language processing 106

Language acquisition(Plato s problem) 116

Language pathology 126

Connectionism: the behaviorists strike back 131

Chapter 4 Philosophical realism: commitments and controversies 136

Commitments 136

Controversies 145

Language and the world 146

Language and the community 149

Language and the individual 155

Problems of semantics 162

Innateness 167

Unification and reduction 174

Conclusions 176

Chapter 5 Language and freedom 177

Explanation and dissent: the common threads 177

Rationality, modularity, and creativity 180

The anarchist background 186

The critique of (American)foreign policy 190

The critique of domestic policy 195

The critique of media contro1 199

The technique of dissection 203

Moral absolutes and options for the future 208

The positive program 211

Conclusion 213

Envoi 214

Notes and References 215

Bibliography 241

Index 263

文库索引 269