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The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky This completely new edition of The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky surveys Chomsky’s contributions to the science of language, to socioeco- nomic-politicalanalysisandcriticism,andtothestudyofthehumanmind. The first section focuses on the aims of Chomsky’s recent “biological – minimalist” turn in the science of language, and shows how Chomsky’s viewofthenatureoflanguageanditsintroductiontothehumanspecieshas recentlydeveloped.ThesecondfocusesonChomsky’sviewofthemindand its parts – and how to study them. Finally, the third examines some of Chomsky’s many contributions to socio-political history and critique. This neweditionexaminesChomsky’sviewsonawiderangeofissues:fromhis viewsofthelexicon,language’sevolution,andthestudyofmindtothestatus ofcapitalismandthePalestine-Israelconflict.Itwillbeessentialreadingfor anyonewithaninterestinChomsky’sideas. james mcgilvray is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University, Montréal. He has written a general introduction to Chomsky’s work (Chomsky 1999; second edition, 2014) and edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky (2005) and the second (2002) and third(2009)editionsofChomsky’sseminalCartesianLinguistics(Cambridge UniversityPress).Hehasalsopublishedseveralarticlesonthephilosophiesof languageandmindthatdefendinvariouswaysthemethodsforthestudyof languageandminddevelopedandendorsedbyChomskyandotherinternalist “biolinguists.” The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky Editedby James McGilvray McGillUniversity,Montréal UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 4843/24,2ndFloor,AnsariRoad,Daryaganj,Delhi–110002,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107165892 10.1017/9781316716694 ©JamesMcGilvray2017 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2005 Secondeditionpublished2017 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd,Padstow,Cornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:McGilvray,JamesA.(JamesAlasdair),1942–editor. Title:TheCambridgecompaniontoChomsky/[editedby]JamesMcGilvray, McGillUniversity,Montreal. Description:NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2017.|Originally published:Cambridge,UK;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2005. Identifiers:LCCN2016046819|ISBN9781107165892 Subjects:LCSH:Chomsky,Noam. Classification:LCCP85.C47C362017|DDC410.92–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016046819 ISBN978-1-107-16589-2Hardback ISBN978-1-316-61814-1Paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. This volume is dedicated to Noam Chomsky. All of the authors in it – and very many more scholars and innumerable “ordinary” people – are indebted to him and hisinspiringintellectualworkandconcernforothers,now spanning almost seventy five years. Contents ListofFigures pageix ListofContributors x Introduction 1 PartI TheScienceofLanguage:RecentChangeandProgress 27 1 TheLocalityofTransformationalMovement:Progressand Prospects 29 howard lasnik 2 IstheFacultyofLanguagea“PerfectSolution”totheInterface Systems? 50 samuel david epstein, hisatsugu kitahara, and t. daniel seely 3 OnMerge 69 norbert hornstein 4 AFeelingforthePhenotype 87 robert c. berwick 5 TheGenerativeWord 110 hagit borer 6 ThirdFactorsinLanguageDesign:SomeSuggestionsfrom QuantumFieldTheory 134 massimo piattelli-palmarini and giuseppe vitiello PartII TheHumanMindandItsStudy 153 7 TheInfluenceofChomskyontheNeuroscienceofLanguage 155 david poeppel vii viii Contents 8 CognitiveScience:WhatShouldItBe? 175 james mcgilvray 9 SemanticInternalism 196 paul m. pietroski 10 FacultiesandModules:ChomskyonCognitiveArchitecture 217 john collins 11 ChomskyandMoralPhilosophy 235 john mikhail PartIII ChomskyonPoliticsandEconomics 255 12 CritiqueandHope:TheMoralBasisofChomsky’sPolitical Economy 257 charles derber 13 ThePropagandaModelandManufacturingConsent:U.S.Public ComplianceandResistance 275 anthony r. dimaggio 14 ChomskyListens:LatinAmericaandtheEthicsofSolidarity 295 greg grandin 15 NoamChomskyandtheQuestionofPalestine/Israel:Bearing Witness 314 irene gendzier Index 331 Figures 1.1 Phrasestructuretreeforsentence(1),“Themanleft.” page31 1.2 Phrasestructuretreeforsentence(10),“Thechildthinksthe manleft.” 32 1.3 Phrasestructuretreeforsentence(12),“Thewomanknowsthe childthinksthemanleft.” 32 1.4 Phrasestructurerepresentationofthesubcategorization requirementfor(a)sleepand(b)solve. 34 1.5 Deepstructurerepresentationforsentence(12),“Thisproblem, Johnsolved.” 35 1.6 Surfacestructurerepresentationforsentence(21),“This problem,Johnsolved.” 35 1.7 AdjunctionofaWHtoacontainingVP. 45 4.1 Acartoon-likerepresentationofthekeydistinctionbetween nonhumanandhumansyntacticcomputationalabilities. 92 4.2 Finite-statetransitionnetworkanalysis. 94 4.3 Estimatedpercentagegeneflowbetweenancestralhumanand Neandertalgroups. 103 4.4 PhylogeneticpictureofHomospecies,assuggestedbythe ancientnuclearDNAanalysisoftheSima“pitofbones”fossils. 105 ix Contributors howard lasnik (Distinguished University Professor, Department of Linguistics,UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark) samueldavidepstein(MarilynJ.ShatzCollegiateProfessorofLinguistics andArthurF.ThurnauProfessor;Director,WeinbergInstituteforCognitive Science,UniversityofMichigan) hisatsugu kitahara (Professor, Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies,KeioUniversity) t. daniel seely (Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, UniversityofEasternMichigan) norbert hornstein (Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, UniversityofMaryland,CollegePark) robert c. berwick (ProfessorofComputationalLinguisticsandComputer ScienceandEngineering,jointlywithBrainandCognitiveSciences,MIT) hagit borer (ProfessorofLinguistics,QueenMaryUniversityofLondon) massimo piattelli-palmarini (Professor of Cognitive Science, DepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofArizona,Tucson) giuseppevitiello(ProfessorofTheoreticalPhysics,DepartmentofPhysics “E.R.Caianiello,” University of Salerno and researcher at the Istituto NazionalediFisicaNucleare[INFN]) david poeppel (Director, Department of Neuroscience, Max-Planck- Institute Frankfurt and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, DepartmentofPsychology,NewYorkUniversity) james mcgilvray (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Department of Philosophy,McGillUniversity) x