A Companion to Chomsky

Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Allott, Nicholas, editor. | Lohndal, Terje, editor. | Rey, Georges,

1945‐ editor.

Title: A companion to Chomsky / edited by Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, &

Georges Rey.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2021. | Series: Blackwell

companions to philosophy | Includes bibliographical references and

index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020043389 (print) | LCCN 2020043390 (ebook) | ISBN

9781119598701 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119598725 (adobe pdf) | ISBN

9781119598688 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Chomsky, Noam–Criticism and interpretation.

Classification: LCC P85.C47 C656 2021 (print) | LCC P85.C47 (ebook) | DDC

410.92–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043389

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043390

Cover Design: Wiley

David Adgeris Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of a number of monographs and articles on syntactic theory and its connections with other aspects of language. He was coeditor of the journal Syntax for seven years, and is coeditor of Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, which he founded in 2001. He was President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020. His latest book is Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power (OUP).

Artemis Alexiadouis a Professor of English Linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Vice‐Director of the Leibniz‐Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). She has published on the syntax of noun phrases and nominalization, transitivity alternations, word order variation, Case and the EPP, and language mixing.

Nicholas Allottis a Senior Lecturer in English language at the University of Oslo. He works on pragmatics; inference and rationality in communication; word meaning and lexical modulation; legal language and interpretation; and the philosophy of linguistics, particularly cognitively realistic approaches such as generative grammar and relevance theory. His publications include Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (3rd ed. 2016) and The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and others after 50 years (2019).

Mark Bakeris a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, having received his PhD in Linguistics in 1985 from MIT. He specializes in the syntax and morphology of less‐studied languages, particularly those of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, seeking to bring together generative‐style theories, data collected from fieldwork, and typological comparison in a way that illuminates all three. He has written five research monographs and one book for a popular audience, The Atoms of Language (2001).

Lisa Lai‐Shen Chengis a Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University. Her primary research interests are comparative syntax, and the interfaces (syntax and semantics, and syntax and phonology). Recent publications include “Wh‐question or wh‐declarative? Prosody makes the difference” (with Yang and Gryllia) in Speech Communication ; and “(In)direct reference in the phonology‐syntax interface under phase theory” (with Bonet, Downing, and Mascaró) in Linguistic Inquiry .

Joshua Cohenis on the Faculty at Apple University; Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at University of California, Berkeley; and co‐editor of Boston Review . He is co‐author, with Joel Rogers, of On Democracy (1983) and Associations and Democracy (1995), and author of Philosophy, Politics, Democracy (2009); The Arc of the Moral Universe (2010); and Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (2011). He is also co‐editor of the Norton Introduction to Philosophy (second edition, 2018).

John Collinsis a Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He mainly researches in the philosophy of language and the foundations of generative linguistics. He is the author of three monographs: Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008), The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (2011), and Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting (2020).

Stephen Crainis a Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia. His framework for research is the biolinguistic approach to language, and he investigates the relationship between logic and child language from a crosslinguistic perspective.

Brian Dillonis an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a psycholinguist whose primary research interest is in real‐time sentence processing. His research seeks to better understand how comprehenders use syntactic information during language comprehension, using both cross‐linguistic experimental investigation and computational modeling.

Elly van Gelderenis a syntactician interested in language change. She teaches at Arizona State University. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight in the Faculty of Language. Publications include The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language (2011), Clause Structure (2013), Syntax (2017), and The Diachrony of Meaning (2018).

Iain Giblinis a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney. His main research interest is child language acquisition with a focus on syntax and semantics.

Michael Glanzbergis a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works on a number of topics in philosophy of language, logic, and the foundations of linguistic theory. He is a co‐author of Formal Theories of Truth and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Truth .

James Griffithsholds the position of Junior Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Tübingen. Specializing in syntax and how it interacts with pragmatics, morphology, and phonology, his main research interest to date has been the distribution of parenthesis and ellipsis within and across languages. His longer articles on this topic have been published in the highly regarded journals Linguistic Inquiry , Natural Language and Linguistic Theory , and Syntax .

Tim Hunteris an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Much of his research focus on syntax and its interfaces with experimental psycholinguistics and with semantics, from a computational perspective.

Lila Gleitmantaught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 until 2001, where she is currently Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology. From 2000–2010 she was a visiting faculty at the Cognitive Science Institute (RUCCS) at Rutgers University. She is the (co‐)author of innumerable books and articles on language acquisition. In 2017 she was a recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition. She is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Steven Grossis a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, with secondary appointments in Cognitive Science and in Psychological and Brain Sciences. He has published on a variety of topics in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of the mind‐brain sciences. His most recent publications have focused on perceptual consciousness and on cognitive penetration. Current projects include “anti‐Bayesian” updating in vision and whether linguistic meaning is perceived or computed post‐perceptually.