What kind of creatures are we? /Noam Chomsky.
- New York : Columbia University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- Columbia themes in philosophy .
Includes bibliographies and index.
What is language? -- 2. what can we understand? -- 3. What is the common good? -- 4. The mysteries of nature: How deeply hidden?.
A collection of lectures by the "founder of modern linguistics" discusses fifty years of scientific development in the study of language as he expounds and criticizes a variety of theories. --Publisher's description.