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Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
List of Abbreviations | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xv |
Linguistic Preliminaries | p. 1 |
Transformational Grammar from ST to EST | p. 1 |
Government and Binding Theory | p. 26 |
The Principles and Parameters Framework | p. 31 |
The Minimalist Program | p. 36 |
The Ontology of Generative Linguistics | p. 44 |
E-Language, I-Language, ¿-Language | p. 44 |
Having Linguistic Rules and Knowing Linguistic Facts | p. 48 |
Levels of Explanation in the Theory of Grammar | p. 55 |
Abstracts and Non-isomorphic Representation | p. 55 |
Types and Tokens | p. 58 |
Derivation vs. Representation | p. 60 |
Data, Intuitions, Judgments | p. 64 |
Linguistic Phenomena, Linguistic Data, Linguistic Theory | p. 64 |
Linguistic Intuitions are Linguistic Judgments | p. 69 |
Linguistic Judgments are Reliable (enough) | p. 71 |
Linguistic Judgments as Scientific Experiments | p. 77 |
On the Alleged Priority of the Data | p. 82 |
A Role for Normative Rule Governance? | p. 90 |
Worries about Rules and Representations | p. 101 |
Quinean Indeterminacy Arguments | p. 102 |
Kripke/Wittgenstein Concerns about Rules | p. 105 |
Externalism about Syntax? | p. 117 |
Referential Semantics for Narrow ¿-Languages | p. 129 |
The Compatibility of Referential Semantics and Narrow ¿-Languages | p. 129 |
Chomsky's Incompatibilist Arguments | p. 131 |
The ôBite the Bulletö Strategy and Chomsky's Response | p. 134 |
The Compatibilist Bites Back | p. 137 |
The Prospects for a Non-referential Semantics | p. 142 |
Best Theory Criteria and Methodological Minimalism | p. 152 |
Simplicity Criteria | p. 152 |
Formal Rigor | p. 162 |
Minimal Effort and Optimal Switching Points | p. 170 |
Appendix: Interview | p. 174 |
Bibliography | p. 192 |
Index of Names | p. 205 |
Index of Terms | p. 208 |
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