Express Levering Cartesian Linguistics – A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought – Chomsky, Noam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The term Cartesian linguistics was coined with the publication of Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought (’66), a book on linguistics by Noam Chomsky, written with the purpose of deepening “our understanding of the nature of language & the mental processes & structures that underlie its use & acquisition” (ix). Chomsky wished to shed light on these underlying structures of the human language, & subsequently whether one can infer the nature of an organism from its language (x)…