Chomsky's Minimalism

by Pieter A.M. Seuren

Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. It argues, familiarly, that there exists a universal grammar that is hardwired, and that, like an efficient machine, this grammar will tend to use the least possible number of constraints (phonetically and syntactically) to produce an utterance. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195173066
• ISBN13: 9780195173062
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"