Linguistics Major Debates - Chomsky

The provided text is comprised of excerpts from "The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky," an academic volume edited by James McGilvray, which broadly discusses Noam Chomsky's significant contributions across linguistics, cognitive science, and political economy. In the realm of linguistics, the sources explore Chomsky's Minimalist Program, particularly the fundamental operation of Merge and its implications for grammatical constraints, the innate nature of the language faculty, and the shift toward an internalist view of semantics. Regarding his political and moral philosophy, the text examines Chomsky's critique of capitalism and its resulting plutocracy, his rationalist perspective on human nature, and the application of the