Offers seven essays commissioned in tribute to MIT Philosophy Professor, Sylvain Bromberger. Each essay is informed by Bromberger's ongoing inquiry into how we "come to know that there are things in the world that we don't know". Included in this work is the edited version of Noam Chomsky's paper.
This work explores the creativity of mind through children's language: how the tiniest utterances can illustrate the simple but abstract principles behind modern grammar - and reveal the innate structures of the mind. Every sentence we hear is instantly analyzed by an inner grammar; just as a prism refracts a beam of light, grammar divides a ...
This work is the culmination of an 18-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behaviour of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic ...
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