TY - BOOK AU - Chomsky, Noam AU - James McGilvray TI - Cartesian linguistics: a chapter in the history of rationalist thought / SN - 978-0-511-50685-7 AV - DUCE P37.5.C37 C48 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Lingustics KW - Cartesian Lingustics N1 - Includes Bibliography and Index N2 - Cartesian Linguistics (CL) began as a manuscript written while Noam Chomsky was a 35-year-old fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. An early version of it was prepared for presentation as a Christian Gauss lecture on Criticism at Princeton University early in 1964. Perhaps because it proved beyond the audience, it was not delivered, and Chomsky presented a general lecture on linguistics as understood at the time. The manu script, however, was revised and published in 1966. An intellectual tour de force, CL is not an easy text to read, but it is certainly a rewarding one. It is an unprecedented and– so far– unequalled linguistic–philosophical study of linguistic creativity and the nature of the mind that is able to produce it UR - http://172.20.27.22:4000/handle/123456789/28 ER -