目次

Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'Thescience of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits oftransformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, orthe strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguisticuniversals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyansemantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: makingpropositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning;(iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics andphilosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics andeverything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.