Noam Chomsky

List of John Benjamins publications in which Noam Chomsky is involved.

Book series

Language Faculty and Beyond

Internal and External Variation in Linguistics

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Pierre Pica

ISSN 1877-6531

Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Noam Chomsky, Joseph E. Emonds, Didier L. Goyvaerts, Carlos P. Otero and Elisabeth Selkirk

ISSN 2215-0293

Articles (7) | Order by:

Chomsky, Noam 2025 The Strong Minimalist Thesis and the science of language Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 20–35 | Chapter

This paper suggests that the study of language may be approaching a new era in which we can envision, and sometimes attain, genuine explanations for basic features of language and answers as to why language should have these modules and not others. This Strong Minimalist Thesis that UG provides… read more

Rothman, Jason and Noam Chomsky 2018 Towards eliminating arbitrary stipulations related to parameters: Linguistic innateness and the variational model Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang, pp. 764–769 | Commentary

Chomsky, Noam 2015 Problems of projection: Extensions Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 3–16 | Article

I presuppose here Chomsky (2013), including separation of projection (labeling) from the principles of construction of expressions. Assume further that for interpretation, syntactic objects must be labeled. It follows that Internal Merge is successive-cyclic leading to a criterial position, and is… read more

Chomsky, Noam 2010 Some methodological remarks on generative grammar Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, Askedal, John Ole, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita (eds.), pp. 31–53 | Article

Chomsky, Noam 2010 Knowledge of language: Its elements and origins Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, Askedal, John Ole, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita (eds.), pp. 55–71 | Article

Chomsky, Noam 2010 Systems of syntactic analysis Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions, Askedal, John Ole, Ian Roberts and Tomonori Matsushita (eds.), pp. 13–29 | Article

Chomsky, Noam 1992 On the nature, use and acquisition of language Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 3–30 | Article