Linguistic Articles by Noam Chomsky

“Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.” Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania,

1951.

“Systems of Syntactic Analysis.” Journal of Symbolic Logic 18, no. 3 (September 1953):
242-56.

Review of Modern Hebrew, by E. Reiger. Language 30 no. 1 (January-March 1954): 180-81.

“Logical Syntax and Semantics: Their Linguistic Relevance.” Language 31, nos. 1-2
(January-March 1955).

“Transformational Analysis.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1955.

“Semantic Considerations in Grammar.” Monograph no. 8: 141-50. Georgetown

University: The Institute of Languages and Linguistics: November 1955.

with M. Halle and F. Lukoff. “On Accent and Juncture in English.” In For Roman
Jakobson. The Hague: Mouton, 1956.

“The range of adequacy of various types of grammars.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress
Report, no. 41 (1956): 93-96.

“On the limits of finite state description.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report, no. 42 (July
1956): 64-65.

“Three Models for the Description of Language.” IRE Transactions on Information Theory
IT-2, no. 3 (September 1956): 113-24. (Reprinted in Readings in Mathematical
Psychology 2, edited by R. Luce, R. Bush, and E. Galanter, 105-24. New York: Wiley
and Sons, 1965.)

Review of Manual of Phonology, by Charles Hockett. IJAL 23, no. 3 (July 1957): 223-34.

Review of Fundamentals of Language, by Roman Jakobson and Morris Halle. IJAL 23, no.
3 (July 1957): 234-42.

“Logical Structures in Language.” American Documentation 8, no. 44 (October 1957): 284-

91.

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with George Miller. “Pattern Conception.” In Proceedings of the University of Michigan
Symposium on Pattern Recognition (October 1957).

“Ha-Safa Ha-Ivrit le'or Ha-Balshanut Ha-Xadasha.” Sheviley Ha-Hinuch 17, no. 4

(Summer 1957).

Review of Language des machines et Language humain, by Vitold Belevitch. Language 34,
no. 1 (January-March 1958): 99-105.

“Some properties of phrase structure grammars.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report, no.
49 (April 15, 1958): 108-11.

with George Miller. “Finite State Languages.” Information and Control 1 (May 1958): 91-
112.(Reprinted in Readings in Mathematical Psychology 2, edited by R. Luce, R. Bush,
and E. Galanter, 156-71. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1965.)

with Israel Scheffler. “What is Said to Be.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
(November 1958): 71-82.

“Linguistics, Logic, Psychology, and Computers.” Computer Programming and Artificial

Intelligence (March 1958): 429-56. (From lectures given at University of Michigan,
June 1958.)

Review of Verbal Behavior, by B.F. Skinner. Language 35, no. 1 (January-March 1959): 26-
57. (Reprinted as no. A-34 in the Social Sciences by Bobbs-Merrill, Inc.; reprinted in
The Structure of Language, edited by Fodor and Katz. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964;
reprint (in French). Language 16 (December 1969): 16-49; reprinted in Readings in
Philosophy of Psychology, edited by N. Block, 48-63. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press 1980; reprinted in Ajattelu, Kieli, Merkitys: Analyyttisen Filosofian
Avainkirjoituksia, 279-310. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 1997.)

Review of Essays in Linguistics, by Greenberg. Word 15, no. 1 (April 1959): 202-18.

“The Transformational Basis of Syntax.” Paper presented at IVth University of Texas

Symposium on Syntax, June 1959. Unpublished.

“On Certain Formal Properties of Grammars.” Information and Control 2 (June 1959): 137-
67. (Reprinted in Readings in Mathematical Psychology 2, edited by Luce, Bush,
Galanter, 125-55. New York, Wiley and Sons, 1965.)

“A Note on Phrase Structure Grammars.” Information and Control 2, no. 4 (December

1959): 393-95.

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with Morris Halle. “The Morphophonemics of English.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress
Report, no. 58 (1960): 275-81.

“On the Notion 'Rule of Grammar'.” In Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics 12:
Structure of Language and its Mathematical Aspects, edited by Roman Jakobson, 6-24.
Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 1961. (Reprinted in The Structure of
Language, edited by Fodor and Katz. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964.)

“Some Methodological Remarks on Generative Grammar.” Word 17, no. 2 (August

1961): 219-34. (Reprinted in Readings in Applied English Linguistics, edited by H.
Allen. New York: Merideth, 1964; Reprinted in No. 15, Bobbs Merrill Reprint Series in
Language and Linguistics, 1961; reprinted in part in Structure of Language, edited by
Fodor and Katz. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964.)

“Explanatory Models in Linguistics.” In Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science:

Proceedings of the 1960 International Congress, edited by Nagel, Suppes, and Tarski,
528-50. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962. (Reprinted in Portuguese. In
Fundamentos Metodologicos Da Linguistica 1, Concepcoes Gerias da Teoria Linguistica,
Marcelo Dascal (org.), Editora Parma, 61-93. Sao Baulo, Brasil: 1978.)

“Context-Free Grammars and Pushdown Storage.” MIT RLE Quarterly Progress Report,
no. 65 (April 16, 1962): 187-94.

“A Transformational Approach to Syntax.” Proceedings of the Third Texas Conference on

Problems of Linguistic Analysis in English on May 9-12, 1958. edited by Hill, 124-58.
Texas, 1962. (Reprinted in Structure of Language, edited by Fodor and Katz. New
York: Prentice-Hall, 1964; reprinted as “Une Conception Transformationelle de la
Syntaxe.” Language 4 (December 4, 1966): 39-80; Reprinted in Classics in Linguistics,
edited by Hayden, Alworth and Tate, 337-71. New York: Philosophical Library,
1967.)

with M.P. Schutzenberger. “The Algebraic Theory of Context-Free Languages.”

Computer Programming and Formal Systems: Studies in Logic, edited by P. Braffort and
D. Hirshberg, 118-61. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1963.

“Perception and Language.” In Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited by M.

Wartofsky, 199-205. Dordrecht-Holland: Reidel, 1963.

“Formal Properties of Grammars.” In Handbook of Mathematical Psychology 2, edited by

Luce, Bush, Galanter, 323-418. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1963.

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with George Miller. “Introduction to the Formal Analysis of Natural Languages.” In
Handbook of Mathematical Psychology 2, edited by Luce, Bush, Galanter, 269-321. New
York: Wiley and Sons, 1963.

with George Miller. “Finitary Models of Language Users.” In Handbook of Mathematical

Psychology 2, edited by Luce, Bush, Galanter, 419-91. New York: Wiley and Sons,
1963.

“Linguistic Structure and Cognitive Processes.” Talk given at Western Division of

American Philosophical Association. Santa Monica, California, April 1963.

“The Logical Basis of Linguistic Theory.” In Proceedings of the Ninth International

Congress of Linguistics, edited by H. Lunt, 914-78. The Hague: Mouton, 1964.
(Reprinted as “Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.” In Structure of Language, edited
by Fodor and Katz. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964; expanded in Janua Linguarum,
Series Minor 38, 7-119. The Hague: Mouton, 1964.)

Report for Project Literacy Meeting, Chicago, August 6, 1964. In Project Literacy Reports,
no. 2 (September 1964): 1-8. (Reprinted as “Comments for Project Literacy Meeting”
in Readings in Applied Transformational Grammar, edited by M. Lester, 277-83. New
York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.)

Untitled paper presented at the Session on Algebraic Linguistics of the International

Symposium on Algebraic Linguistics and Automata Theory, Jerusalem, 1964.
Unpublished.

“Formal discussion of W. Miller and Susan Ervin, 'The Development of Grammar in

Child Language'.” The Acquisition of Language 29, no. 1, Monographs of the Society
for Research in Child Development, edited by U. Bellugi and R. Brown, 35-39.
Purdue: Purdue University, 1964. (Reprinted in Readings in Applied Transformational
Grammar, edited by M. Lester, 41-50. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970;
reprinted as a review of The Development of Grammar in Child Language. In Child
Language: A Book of Readings, edited by A. Bar-Adon and W.F. Leopold. New York:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.)

with Morris Halle. “Some Controversial Questions in Phonological Theory.” Journal of

Linguistics 1, no. 2 (October 1965): 97-138. (Reprint (in Portuguese). In Fundamentos
Metodologicos da Linguistica 2, Fonologia e Sintaxe, edited by Marco Dascal, 85-130.
Brasil: UNICAMP, Campinas, 1981.)

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“De Quelques Constantes de la Theorie Linguistique.” Diogene, no. 51 (July-September
1965): 4-21. (Reprinted as “Persistent Topics in Linguistic Theory.” Diogenes (Fall
1965): 13-20.)

“Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar.” In Current Trends in Linguistics 3:

Theoretical Foundations, edited by T. Sebeok, 1-60. The Hague: Mouton, 1966.
(Reprinted in Janua Linguarum NR no. 56 Series Minor, 7-95. The Hague:
Mouton, 1966; reprinted in The Philosophy of Language, edited by J.R. Searle, 71-
100. London: Oxford University Press, 1971; reprinted as Thesen zur Theorie der
generativen Grammatick. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Athenaum Fischer
Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., 1974. Reprint. 2nd Editon. Weinheim,
Germany: Beltz Athenaum Verlag, 1995.)

“The Current Scene in Linguistics: Present Directions.” College English 27, no. 8 (May
1966): 587-95.

“Linguistic Theory.” In Reports of Working Committees for Northeast Conference on Teaching

Foreign Languages, edited by R.G. Mead, Jr., 43-49. Wisconsin: George Banta Co. Inc.,
1966. (Reprinted in Readings in Applied Transformational Grammar, edited by M.
Lester, 51-60. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1970.)

“The relevance of scientific linguistics to philosophy.” Paper presented to a session of

the Western Branch of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis (May
1966): 1-25. Unpublished.

“La notion de 'regle de grammaire'.” Langages 4, (Decembre 1966): 81-104.

“Language and the Study of Mind.” Paper presented in Japan, 1966.

“The Formal Nature of Language.” In Biological Foundations of Language, edited by E.H.

Lenneberg, 397-442. New York: Wiley and Sons, 1967. (Reprinted as “Die formale
Natur der Sprache.” In Psychobiologie, edited by K. Scherer, S. Stahnke, and P.
Winkler, 345-56. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1987.)

“Reply to R. Wardhaugh.” College English 28 (March 1967): 468-69.

“Ningen no Kokoro to Kotaba no Honsitsu -- Chomusuki-Riron o Megutte.” (Human

Mind and the Essence of Word -- around the Chomskyan theory). In Asahi Zyanaru.
Tokyo: Asahi Press, 1967. (Published round table discussions. Critical participants:
Chomsky, Sawada, Hatano, Fujimura.)

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“Gengo to Ningen-Kagaku.” (Language and the Science of Man). In Kotoba-no-Uchu, no.
6: 15-31. Tokyo: TEC Company, November 1966. (Public lectures translated by T.
Suzuku. Special issue to welcome Dr. Chomsky.)

“Kokoru-no Kenkuo ni taisure Gengogaku no Koken.” (Contributions of Linguistics to

the Study of the Mind). In Kotoba-no-Uchu, no. 6: 32-48. Tokyo: TEC Company,
November 1966. (Public lectures translated by T. Suzuku. Special issue to welcome
Dr. Chomsky.)

“Some general properties of phonological rules.” Language 43, no. 1 (March 1967): 102-
28.

“Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas.” In Syntheses 17, 2-11. Dordrecht,
Holland: D. Reidel Co., 1967. (Reprinted as “Some Contributions to the Theory of
Innate Ideas.” In Modern Philosophies of Education, edited by J.P. Strain, 332-41. New
York: Random House, 1971; reprinted as “Recent Contributions to the Theory of
Innate Ideas.” In Challenges to Empiricism, edited by Harold Morick, 230-40.
Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Co., 1980; reprinted as “Recent
Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas”; reprinted in A Portrait of Twenty-five
Years. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Robert S. Cohen and M.
Wartofsky, 31-40. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing, 1985;
reprinted in Finnish in Ajattelu, Kieli, Merkitys - Analyyttisen Filosofian
Avainkirjoituksia, 311-19. Helsinki: Gaudeamus Books, 1997.)

“The General Properties of Language.” In Brain Mechanisms Underlying Speech and

Language, edited by F.L. Darley, 73-81. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1967.
(Proceedings of a conference held at Princeton, New Jersey, November 9-12, 1965.)

“Noam Chomsky and Stuart Hampshire discuss the study of language.” The Listener 79,
no. 2044 (May 30, 1968): 687-91.

“Contributions de la Linguistique a l'Etude de la Pensee.” Change 1, Le Montage (Seuil

1968): 43-71.

“Trois modeles de description du language.” Languages 9 (Mars 1968): 51-76.

with M.P. Schutzenberger. “Theorie algebrique des languages context-free.” Languages

9, (Mars 1968): 77-118.

“Quine's Empirical Assumptions.” Syntheses 19, no. 1, 2, edited by D. Davidson and J.

Hintikka, 53-68. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Co., December 1968. (Expanded as
“Some Empirical Assumptions in Modern Philosophy of Language.” In Philosophy,

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 Science, and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel, edited by S. Morgenbesser, P.
Suppes, M. White, 260-85. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1969.)

“Comments on Harman's Reply to 'Linguistics and Philosophy'.” In Language and

Philosophy, edited by S. Hook, 152-59. New York: New York University Press, 1969.
(Symposium paper for New York University Institute of Philosophy.)

“Some Observations on the Teaching of Language.” The Pedagogic Reporter 21, no. 1
(September 1969): 5,6,13.

“Form and Meaning in Natural Language.” In Communication, edited by J.D. Roslansky,

65-85. Amsterdam: North-Holland. (Paper presented at Gustavus Adolphus College
Symposium on Communication, January 8-9, 1969.)

“Should Traditional Grammar be Ended or Mended?” In Educational Review 22 no. 1, 5-

17. Birmingham, England: School of Education, November 1969. (Reprinted in
Language Perspectives, edited by B. Wade, 10-22. London: Heinemann Educational
Books Ltd, 1982.)

“Phonology and Reading.” In Basic Studies in Reading, edited by H. Levin and J.P.
Williams, 3-18. New York: Basic Books, 1970. Reprint. New York: Harper & Row,
1971.

“Remarks on Nominalization.” In Readings in English Transformational Grammar, edited

by R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum, 184-221. Waltham, Massachusetts: Blaisdell
Publishing, 1970. (Reprinted in Syntactic Argumentation, edited by Donna Jo Napoli
and E.N. Rando, 138-83. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1979.)

“Deep Structure, Surface Structure and Semantic Interpretation.” In Studies in General

and Oriental Linguistics, edited by R. Jakobson and S. Kawamoto, 183-216. Tokyo:
TEC Corporation for Language Research, 1970.

“Some Observations on the Problems of Semantic Analysis in Natural Languages.” In

Sign, Language, Culture, edited by C.H. Van Schooneveld, 256-60. The Hague:
Mouton, 1970.

“Problems of Explanation in Linguistics.” In Explanations in the Behavioral Sciences,

edited by R. Borger and F. Cioffi, 425-51. New York: Cambridge University Press,
1970.

“Theorie Linguistique et apprentissage.” La Recherche 2, no. 11 (April 1971): 326-30.

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Review of “Language and Mind.” Child Language: A Book of Readings, edited by A. Bar-
Adon and W.F. Leopold. New York: Prentice Hall, 1971.

“Some Empirical Issues in the Theory of Transformational Grammar.” In Goals of

Linguistic Theory, edited by S. Peters. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1971.
(Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference at University of Texas, October 1969.
Reprinted in Studies on Semantics, 1972.)

“Conditions on Transformations.” Indiana Linguistics Club, University of Indiana.

Bloomington, Indiana, 1971. (Reprinted in Festschrift for Morris Halle, edited by P.
Kiparsky and S. Peters. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.)

“Théorie Linguistique.” Le Français dans le monde, no. 88 (1972).

Introduction to Language and Cognition by Adam Schaff. McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1973.

(Translation of Jezyk a Poznanie.)

with Jerrold J. Katz. “What the Linguist is Talking About.” Journal of Philosophy 71, no.
12 (June 27, 1974): 347-67. (Reprinted in Readings in Philosophy of Psychology 2, edited
by N. Block, 223-37. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.)

“Questions of Form and Interpretation.” Montreal Working Papers in Linguistics 3,

December 1974. (Paper delivered at LSA Golden Anniversary Symposium, Amherst,
Massachusetts, July 1974. Reprinted in The Scope of American Linguistics, edited by R.
Austerlitz. Lisse: Peter De Ridder Press, 1975; reprint. Linguistic Analysis 1, no. 1
(1975): 75-109; reprinted as “The Amherst Lectures.” Universite de Paris VII,
Departement de Recherches Linguistiques, February 1975.)

“Language and Learning.” Boston Arts Review 1, no. 1 (January 1975): 21-24.

“Conditions on Rules of Grammar.” Linguistic Analysis 2, no. 4 (1976): 303-51.

(Reprinted in Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, edited by R. Cole. Indiana: Indiana
University Press, 1977. Based on a lecture for Linguistic Institute, South Florida, June
1975.)

“On the Nature of Language.” In Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech, edited by
S.R. Harnad, H.D. Steklis, and J. Lancaster, 46-57. New York: Annals of New York
Academy of Sciences 280, 1976.

“Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language.” In Language in Focus:

Foundations, Methods and Systems. Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, edited
by A. Kasher. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1976.

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“On the Biological Basis of Language Capacities.” In The Neuropsychology of Language,
edited by R.W. Rieber. New York: Plenum Press, 1976. (Talk delivered at Lenneberg
Memorial Symposium, Cornell University, May 1976. Reprinted in Psychology and
Biology of Language and Thought: Essays in Honor of Eric Lenneberg, edited by George
A. Miller and Elizabeth Lenneberg. Academic Press, 1978.)

“Introduction à la théorie standard étendue.” In Langue. Théorie générative étendue, edited

by M. Ronat, Collection Savoir, 19-39. Paris: Hermann, 1977.

with H. Lasnik. “Filters and Control.” Linguistic Inquiry 8, no. 3 (Summer 1977): 425-504.

“On Wh-Movement.” In Formal Syntax, edited by P. Culicover, T. Wasow, and A.

Akmajian. Academic Press, 1977.

“A Theory of Core Grammar.” GLOT, Leids Taalkundig Bulletin 1, no. 1 (1978): 7-26.
(Edited version of lecture given at the University of Leiden, December 12, 1977.
Reprint. Rivista de Grammatica Generativa 3, no. 1 (1978): 3-30.)

with H. Lasnik. “A Remark on Contraction.” Linguistic Inquiry 9, no. 2 (Spring 1978):

268-74.

“The Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Background.” Introduction to Explorations in the

Biology of Language, edited by Edward Walekr, 15-26. Montgomery, VT: Bradford
Books, 1978.

“Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew.” In Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, a

Garland Series, edited by J. Hankamer. New York and London: Garland Publishing,
Inc., 1979.

“Human Language and Other Semiotic Systems.” Semiotica 25-1/2 (1979): 31-44.
(Symposium paper for annual meeting American Association Advancement of
Science, February 16, 1978. Reprinted in Introduction to Semiotics. Translated Papers
and Studies, edited by S. Kasem and N.H. AbuZeid. Cairo, Egypt: Elias Modern
Publishing House & Co., 1986.)

Théories du langage. Théories de l'apprentissage, Le débat entre Jean Piaget et Noam Chomsky.
Paris: Editions de Seuil, 1979. (Talks held at Centre Royaumont, Paris, October 1975.
Reprinted as “On Cognitive Structures and Their Development.” In Language and
Learning, The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky, edited by M. Piattelli-
Palmarini, 35-52. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980; reprint (in

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 Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Politica, 1988; reprinted (in Polish). Warsaw:
Wydawnictwo, 1995).

“Linguaggio” (Language). In Enciclopedia Einaudi, no. 8, edited by Guilio Einaudi, 352-

99. Torino: 1979.

“Principles and Parameters in Syntactic Theory” (in Italian). Revista Di Grammatica

Generativa 4, no. 1-2 (1979): 3-75. (Reprinted in Explanation in Linguistics. The Logical
Problem of Language Acquisition, edited by N. Hornstein and D. Lightfoot, 32-75.
London and New York: Longman, 1981.)

“On Binding.” Linguistic Inquiry 11, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 1-46. (Reprinted in Binding and
Filtering, edited by Frank Heny, 47-103. London: Croom Helm, 1981.)

with David Caplan. “Linguistic Perspectives on Language Development.” In Biological

Studies of Mental Processes, edited by David Caplan, 97-105. Cambridge, MA and
London: The MIT Press, 1980.

“On Opacity.” In Studies in English Linguistics, For Randolph Quirk, edited by S.

Greenbaum, G. Leech, and J. Svartvik, 1-6. London and New York: Longman, 1980.

Preface to La estructura fonica d la lengua castellana, edited by Jorge M. Guitart and

Joaquin Roy. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1980.

“A Naturalistic Approach to Language and Cognition.” Cognition and Brain Theory 4, no.
1 (Winter 1981): 3-22.

“Reply to Putnam.” In Readings in Philosophy of Psychology 2, edited by N. Block, 300-304.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

“On Cognitive Capacity.” In Readings in Philosophy of Psychology 2, edited by N. Block,

305-23. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

“Discussion of Putnam's Comments.” In Readings in Philosophy of Psychology 2, edited by

N. Block, 349-58. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

“On the Representation of Form and Function.” The Linguistic Review 1 (1981): 3-40.

“Knowledge of Language: its elements and origins.” In The Psychological Mechanisms of

Language, 9-20. Cambridge, England: The Royal Society and The British Academy,
University Press, 1981. (Paper given at Royal Society, June 1981. Reprinted as “La

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 connaissance du langage: ses composantes et ses origines.” Communications 40
(9184): 7-24.)

“A Note on Non-Control Pro.” Journal of Linguistic Research 1, no. 4 (1981): 1-11.

“Markedness and Core Grammar.” In Theory of Markedness in Generative Grammar,

edited by A. Belletti, L. Brandi, L. Rizzi, 123-46. Pisa, Italy: Scuola Normale
Superiore di Pisa, 1981. (Proceedings of the 1979 GLOW Conference.)

“A Note on the Creative Aspect of Language Use.” The Philosophical Review 91, no. 3
(July 1982): 423-34.

“Noam Chomsky's Views on the Psychology of Language and Thought.” In Dialogues

on the Psychology of Language and Thought, edited by Robert W. Rieber. New York:
Plenum Press, 1983.

“Some Conceptual Shifts in the Study of Language.” How Many Questions? Essays in
honor of Sidney Morgenbesser, edited by L.S. Cauman, I. Levi, C.D. Parsons, and R.
Schwartz, 154-69. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1983.

“Hizkuntzalaritza eta giza gogoaren natura.” (Linguistics and the Nature of Human
Thought). Jakin 29 (1983): 135-46. (From a talk for First Unitarian Society,
Minneapolis, 1980.)

“Mental Representations.” Syracuse Scholar 4, no. 2 (Fall 1983): 5-21. (Edited version of
Watson Lectures at Syracuse, 1982.)

“The Study of Generative Grammar.” In Proceedings of Harbin Conference on Generative

Grammar, edited by Xi Yin Li. Harbin, Peoples Republic of China: Heilongjiong
University Press, n.d.

“Changing Perspectives on Knowledge and Use of Language.” Theoretical Linguistic

Research 1, no. 2 (December 1984): 135-94. (From paper presented at MIT Cognitive
Science Center, May 1984. Reprinted as “Cambios de perspective sobre el
conocimento y uso del lenguage.” Teorem 15, nos.1-2 (1985): 11-71; excerpted in The
Representation of Knowledge and Belief, edited by M. Brand and R. Harnish, 1-58.
Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1986; reprint (in Swedish?). Leuvense
Bijdragen 75, no. 1 (1986): 1-71.)

“The Generative Enterprise” (in Japanese). Gengo 13, 14, nos. 9-12, 5-9 (1984-85).

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“Noam Chomsky Writes to Mrs. Davis About Grammar and Education.” English
Education 16, no. 3 (October 1984): 165-66.

“Language and the Human Mind.” Studies in Korean Linguistics edited by Young-Key
Kim-Renaud. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishing Co., 1986.

“Human Language and Other Semiotic Systems.” In Introduction to Semiotics. Translated

Papers and Studies, edited by S. Kasem and N.H. AbuZeid. Cairo, Egypt: Elias
Modern Publishing House & Co., 1986.

“Some Observations on Language and Language Learning: Reply to McNamara, Arbib,

and Moore and Furrow.” New Ideas in Psychology 4, no. 3 (1986): 363-77.

“On the Nature, Use and Acquisition of Language.” Talk given at Sophia University,
Tokyo and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Kyoto, January 1987; Sophia
Linguistica: Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 22, Tokyo: The Graduate School of
Languages and Linguistics, Linguistic Institute for International Communication,
Sophia University, 1987. (Reprinted in Generative Grammar: Its Basis, Development and
Prospects. Studies in English Linguistics and Literature, Special Issue, Kyoto: Kyoto
University of Foreign Studies, 1988; reprinted in Mind and Cognition. A Reader, edited
by W. Lycan, 627-46. Oxford, UK and Cambridge, MA: Basis Blackwell, 1990;
reprinted in Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in Honour of René Dirven on the
Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, edited by Martin Putz, 3-29. Amsterdam and
Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992; reprinted in Current Papers
of Noam Chomsky, ed. by Jin Soon Cha. Seoul: Sookmyung Women’s University, 1993;
reprinted as “Sobre La Naturaleza, Uso Y Adquisicion del Lenguaje.” Analisis
Filosofico XV, no. 1 & 2 (Mayo y Noviembre 1995): 1-34; reprinted in Handbook of
Child Language Acquisition, edited by William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia, 33-54. San
Diego: Academic Press, 1999.)

“Language = Communication? Not Necessarily.” The English Journal (June 1987): 136-40.

“Language and Problems of Knowledge.” Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg

(LAUD) Series A, Paper no. 181. Duisburg, W. Germany, 1987. (From paper
delivered at conference in Madrid, April 28 1986; reprinted in Synthesis Philosophica
3, no. 5 (1988): 149-75; reprinted in Teorema 16/2, 1997: 5-33)

“Exchanges on Reconstructive Knowledge.” Correspondance between Noam Chomsky

and Marcus Raskin. In New Ways of Knowing: The Sciences, Society and Reconstructive
Knowledge, 104-56. Towata, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1987.

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Reply to “Review Discussion on Chomsky's Knowledge of Language” by Alexander
George and Michael Brody. Mind & Language 2, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 178-97.

“Sur quelques changements concernant les conceptions du langage et de l'esprit.”

(Changing Conceptions of Language and Mind). In Transparence et Opacite.
Litterature et Sciences Cognitives. Hommages a Mitsou Ronat., edited by T. Papp and P.
Pica, 183-204. France: Les Editions du Cerf, 1988.

“Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation.” In Functional Heads and

Clause Structure, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 10, edited by I. Laka and A.
Mahajan, 43-74. Cambridge, MA: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1989.
(Talk given at the Kyoto Prizes, November 11, 1988. Reprint (in Japanese). In
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“Language and Cognition.” Welcoming address, Conference of Cognitive Science

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“Plato had Access to the Switch” (in Italian). La Repubblica (May 24, 1992).

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“Language and Interpretation: Philosophical Reflections and Empirical Inquiry.”

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“Bare Phrase Structure.” Cambridge: MITWPL, January 1994. (Reprinted in Otero

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“Il Linguaggio e Le Scienze Cognitive: Un Saggio Inedito.” Kos 10 (July 1994), no. 106:
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“Our Knowledge of Human Language: the State of the Art.” Talk given at Univ de
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“Knowledge of History and Theory Construction in Modern Linguistics.” Talk given at

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“Language and Mind: Current Thoughts on Ancient Problems (part I).” Paper
presented at Univ de Brasilia, Nov. 25, 1996. Unpublished.

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“Comments: Galen Strawson, Mental Reality.” In Philosophy and Phenomenolgical

Research 58, no. 2 (June 1998): 437-41.

“Perspectives on Language and Mind.” A talk given at the Honoris Causa Ceremony,
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“Language and the Brain.” Talk given at the European Conference on Cognitive
Science, Universita de Siena, Siena, Italy, October 30, 1999. Unpublished.

“Derivation by Phase.” MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 18. Cambridge, MA: MIT
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“Language Design.” In Predictions: 30 Great Minds on the Future, edited by Sian Griffiths,
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“Internalist Explorations.” In New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind, 164-94.
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“Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework.” In Step by Step: Essays in Minimalist Syntax in

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“Beyond Explanatory Adequacy.” MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 20,

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with W. Tecumseh Fitch and Marc D. Hauser. “The Faculty of Language: What Is It,
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“Turing on the `Imititation Game'.” In The Turing Test, edited by Stuart Shieber.
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“Three Factors in Language Design.” Linguistics Inquiry 36, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 1-22.
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“What we Know: On the Universals of Language and Rights.” Boston Review 30, nos. 3-4
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“Universals of human nature.” Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 74, no. 5 (August 2005):
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with W. Tecumseh Fitch and Marc D. Hauser. “The Evolution of the Language Faculty:
Clarifications and Implications.” Cognition 97, no 2 (September 2005): 179-210.

“On phases.” In Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory, edited by Robert Freidin, Carlos
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“Biolinguistic Explorations: Design, Development, Evolution.” International Journal of

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