This book explores in detail human language theories according to Noam Chomsky. It states that human languages are complex, porous, and moldable systems for the purpose of sociocultural development, and are similar to institutions that promote legal and political systems. It discusses subjects such as biolinguistics, linguistic theories, grammar and logic, words and concepts, language and music, and a joint of nature, including principles of efficient computation (PCE) as “laws of nature.” Chomsky suggests that language as a study of an aspect of the human mind is starting to have the “feel of ... More

This book explores in detail human language theories according to Noam Chomsky. It states that human languages are complex, porous, and moldable systems for the purpose of sociocultural development, and are similar to institutions that promote legal and political systems. It discusses subjects such as biolinguistics, linguistic theories, grammar and logic, words and concepts, language and music, and a joint of nature, including principles of efficient computation (PCE) as “laws of nature.” Chomsky suggests that language as a study of an aspect of the human mind is starting to have the “feel of scientific inquiry”. He said: “[I]t seems obvious, when you think about it, that the notion of language is a much more abstract notion than the notion of grammar...grammars have to have a real existence...But there is nothing in the real world corresponding to language. In fact, it could very well turn out that there is no intelligible notion of language.” The book presents biolinguistics as not merely a coverage of data or syntax research on language, but rather a search for invariants in nature and other perspectives on the organization of language and the architecture of the mind. It argues that grammars consist of mind/brain schematic and computational aspects, and its principles compute over symbols or representations that are useful to express thoughts and emotions.