Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures

Noam Chomsky

Walter de Gruyter, 1993 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 371 pages

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Contents

• Outline of the theory of core grammar: 1
• Subsystems of core grammar: 17
• VII: 36
• Notes: 138
• On government and binding: 153
• Notes: 196
• Specification of empty categories: 231
• Some related topics: 285
• Notes: 314
• Empty categories and the rule Movea: 321
• Bibliography: 347
• Index of Names: 355
• 231: 121
• The Shifting Roles of Women 222: 222
• Treaty and LoyaltyOath 253: 253
• ProverbBook and GoldEconomy 290: 290
• Motifs Comparisons Proverbs 309: 309
• Appendix 328: 328
• Words discussed 344: 344
• Passages cited 357: 357
• Objects described: 387
• General: 393

About the author

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1928. Son of a Russian emigrant who was a Hebrew scholar, Chomsky was exposed at a young age to the study of language and principles of grammar. During the 1940s, he began developing socialist political leanings through his encounters with the New York Jewish intellectual community. Chomsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy. He conducted much of his research at Harvard University. In 1955, he began teaching at MIT, eventually holding the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Language and Linguistics. Today Chomsky is highly regarded as both one of America's most prominent linguists and most notorious social critics and political activists. His academic reputation began with the publication of Syntactic Structures in 1957. Within a decade, he became known as an outspoken intellectual opponent of the Vietnam War. Chomsky has written many books on the links between language, human creativity, and intelligence, including Language and Mind (1967) and Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use (1985). He also has written dozens of political analyses, including Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), Chronicles of Dissent (1992), and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures; Issue 9 of Studies in generative grammar, ISSN 0167-4331
• Author: Noam Chomsky
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 1993
• ISBN: 3110141310, 9783110141313
• Length: 371 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax