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Summary/Abstract: The present volume constitutes an insightful review and analysis of the role played by the “generative enterprise” in the study of human language. In an effort to link “past ideas with present ideas, past concerns with present concerns” (p. XVI), the authors have brought together two interviews with Noam Chomsky, interviews which form the two parts of the book. The first part, The Generative Enterprise, includes the first interview, which was taken by Riny Huybregts and Henk van Riemsdijk at a time when a new approach to the study of language was emerging (i.e. the “principlesand- parameters” theory). The second interview contained in this volume, Linguistics in the 21st Century, took place twenty years after the appearance of PPT1, and ten years after the publication of the “Minimalist Program”. In this interview, Naoki Fukui and Mihoko Zushi bring into discussion various topics related to the development of linguistic theory in the past twenty years, the impact and influence of minimalism onto the field of linguistics, the relation between generative grammar and other sciences, etc.

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