Nicholas Allott is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Oslo. His work focuses on pragmatics, inference and rationality in communication, word meaning and lexical modulation, legal language and interpretation, and the philosophy of linguistics. His publications include Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals (with Neil Smith) (2016).

Terje Lohndal is Professor of English Linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Adjunct Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His main areas of research are comparative grammar, multilingualism, and the history of generative linguistics. He has published numerous papers, and several books, among them, Phrase Structure and Argument Structure (2014).

Georges Rey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has written extensively on the foundations of cognitive science, including more than sixty articles and two books, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind (1997) and Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics (2020).

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv 1 Synoptic Introduction 1Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey 2 Biographical Sketch 18Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey Part I Historical Development of Linguistics 23 3 From the Origins of Government and Binding to the Current State of Minimalism 25Artemis Alexiadou and Terje Lohndal 4 The Enduring Discoveries of Generative Syntax 52Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng and James Griffiths 5 The Chomsky Hierarchy 74Tim Hunter 6 Naturalism, Internalism, and Nativism: The Legacy of The Sound Pattern of English 96Charles Reiss and Veno Volenec 7 Language as a Branch of Psychology: Chomsky and Cognitive Science 109Lila Gleitman Part II Contemporary Issues in Syntax 123 8 The Architecture of the Computation 125David Adger 9 Merge and Features: The Engine of Syntax 140Peter Svenonius 10 On Chomsky's Legacy in the Study of Linguistic Diversity 158Mark Baker 11 Parameters and Linguistic Variation 172Michelle Sheehan 12 Constraints on Grammatical Dependencies 190Gereon Müller 13 Chomsky's Influence on Historical Linguistics: From Universal Grammar to Third Factors 210Elly van Gelderen 14 Second Language Acquisition 222Roumyana Slabakova 15 Multilingualism and Chomsky's Generative Grammar 232Tanja Kupisch, Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares, Eloi Puig-Mayenco, and Jason Rothman Part III Comparisons with other Frameworks 243 16 The View from Declarative Syntax 245Peter Sells 17 How Statistical Learning Can Play Well with Universal Grammar 267Lisa S. Pearl 18 Chomsky and Usage-Based Linguistics 287Frederick J. Newmeyer Part IV Processing and Acquisition 305 19 Sentence Processing and Syntactic Theory 307Dave Kush and Brian Dillon 20 Neuroscience and Syntax 325Emiliano Zaccarella and Patrick C. Trettenbrein 21 Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition 348Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton 22 Chomsky and Signed Languages 364Diane Lillo-Martin 23 Atypical Acquisition 377Neil Smith and Ianthi Tsimpli Part V Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language 391 24 Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition 393John Collins 25 Chomsky on Meaning and Reference 404Paul Pietroski 26 Chomsky on Semantics 416Michael Glanzberg 27 Chomsky and Pragmatics 433Nicholas Allott and Deirdre Wilson Part VI Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind 449 28 Nativism 451Georges Rey 29 The Deep Forces That Shape Language and the Poverty of the Stimulus 462Stephen Crain, Iain Giblin, and Rosalind Thornton 30 Chomsky on the Evolution of the Language Faculty: Presentation and Perspectives for Further Research 476Anne Reboul 31 Chomsky and Intentionality 488John Collins and Georges Rey 32 The Mind-Body Relation: Problem, Mystery, or What? 503Joseph Levine Part VII Methodological and other Explanatory Issues 515 33 Chomsky's "Galilean" Explanatory Style 517Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey 34 Chomsky and Fodor on Modularity 529Nicholas Allott and Neil Smith 35 Linguistic Judgments as Evidence 544Steven Gross 36 Chomsky's Problem/Mystery Distinction 557John Collins 37 Knowledge, Morality, and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky 567Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers Part VIII Reflections 581 38 Reflections 583Noam Chomsky Author Index 595 Subject Index 599