This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-
gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of …

This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about
the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern …

Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis,
linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly …

Biolinguistics will have to face and resolve several problems before it can achieve a pivotal
position in the human sciences. Its relationship to the Minimalist Program is ambiguous …

This article briefly reviews some recent work on artificial language learning in children and
adults. The final part of the article is devoted to a theoretical formulation of the language …

I show that there are good arguments and evidence to boot that support the language as an
instrument of thought hypothesis. The underlying mechanisms of language, comprising of …

This paper offers a refutation of Chomsky's Universal Grammar (UG) from a novel
perspective. It comprises a central part, clarifications and comparisons. The central part …

Combinatorial network optimization theory concerns minimization of connection costs
among interconnected components in systems such as electronic circuits. As an …

This work consists of two parts. The first presents the state of art concerning the history and
the reception by the scientific community of the Gaia hypothesis introduced in the 1970s and …