Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
- The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Science of Language: Recent Change and Progress
- 1 The Locality of Transformational Movement: Progress and Prospects
- 2 Is the Faculty of Language a “Perfect Solution” to the Interface Systems?
- 3 On Merge
- 4 A Feeling for the Phenotype
- 5 The Generative Word
- 6 Third Factors in Language Design: Some Suggestions from Quantum Field Theory
- Part II The Human Mind and Its Study
- Part III Chomsky on Politics and Economics
- Index
- References
4 - A Feeling for the Phenotype
from Part I - The Science of Language: Recent Change and Progress
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
- The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Science of Language: Recent Change and Progress
- 1 The Locality of Transformational Movement: Progress and Prospects
- 2 Is the Faculty of Language a “Perfect Solution” to the Interface Systems?
- 3 On Merge
- 4 A Feeling for the Phenotype
- 5 The Generative Word
- 6 Third Factors in Language Design: Some Suggestions from Quantum Field Theory
- Part II The Human Mind and Its Study
- Part III Chomsky on Politics and Economics
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky , pp. 87 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
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