Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Plan
1: Linguistic Preliminaries
2: The Ontology of Generative Linguistics
3: Linguistic Data and Linguistic Judgments
4: A Role for Normative Rule Governance?
5: Worries about Rules and Representations
6: Referential Semantics for narrow ?-languages?
7: Best Theory Criteria and Methodological Minimalism
Appendix: Interview with Noam Chomsky
Bibliography

About the Author

Peter Ludlow is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Michigan, and the University of Toronto before joining Northwestern.

Reviews

Ludlows book contains a rich and highly informed discussion of a wide range of issues in the philosophy of linguistics. It is an excellent and important contribution to this emerging field, and hopefully it will encourage its continuing growth.
*Ofra Magidor, Analysis*