A Companion to Chomsky

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Synoptic Introduction • Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
2 Biographical Sketch • Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
Part I: Historical Development of Linguistics
	3 From the Origins of Government and Binding to the Current State of Minimalism • Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal
	4 The Enduring Discoveries of Generative Syntax • Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and James Griffiths
	5 The Chomsky Hierarchy • Tim Hunter
	6 Naturalism, Internalism, and Nativism:  The Legacy of The Sound Pattern of English  • Charles Reiss and Veno Volenec
	7 Language as a Branch of Psychology: Chomsky and Cognitive Science • Lila Gleitman
Part II: Contemporary Issues in Syntax
	8 The Architecture of the Computation • David Adger
	9 Merge and Features: The Engine of Syntax • Peter Svenonius
	10 On Chomsky’s Legacy in the Study of Linguistic Diversity • Mark Baker
	11 Parameters and Linguistic Variation • Michelle Sheehan
	12 Constraints on Grammatical Dependencies • Gereon Müller
	13 Chomsky’s Influence on Historical Linguistics: From Universal Grammar to Third Factors • Elly van Gelderen
	14 Second Language Acquisition • Roumyana Slabakova
	15 Multilingualism and Chomsky’s Generative Grammar • Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, and Jason Rothman
Part III: Comparisons with Other Frameworks
	16 The View from Declarative Syntax • Peter Sells
	17 How Statistical Learning Can Play Well with Universal Grammar • Lisa S. Pearl
	18 Chomsky and Usage-Based Linguistics • Frederick J. Newmeyer
Part IV: Processing and Acquisition
	19 Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theory • Dave Kush and Brian Dillon
	20 Neuroscience and Syntax • Emiliano Zaccarella and Patrick C. Trettenbrein
	21 Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition • Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton
	22 Chomsky and Signed Languages • Diane Lillo-Martin
	23 Atypical Acquisition • Neil Smith and Ianthi Tsimpli
Part V: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language
	24 Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition • John Collins
	25 Chomsky on Meaning and Reference • Paul Pietroski
	26 Chomsky on Semantics • Michael Glanzberg
	27 Chomsky and Pragmatics • Nicholas Allott and DeirdreWilson
Part VI: Cognitive Science and Philosophy ofMind
	28 Nativism • Georges Rey
	29 The Deep Forces That Shape Language and the Poverty of the Stimulus • Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin, and Rosalind Thornton
	30 Chomsky on the Evolution of the Language Faculty: Presentation and Perspectives for Further Research • Anne Reboul
	31 Chomsky and Intentionality • John Collins and Georges Rey
	32 The Mind–Body Relation: Problem, Mystery, or What? • Joseph Levine
Part VII: Methodological and Other Explanatory Issues
	33 Chomsky’s “Galilean” Explanatory Style • Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey
	34 Chomsky and Fodor on Modularity • Nicholas Allott and Neil Smith
	35 Linguistic Judgments as Evidence • Steven Gross
	36 Chomsky’s Problem/Mystery Distinction • John Collins
	37 Knowledge, Morality, and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky • Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Part VIII: Reflections
	38 Reflections • Noam Chomsky
Author Index
Subject Index