PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC THEORY

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Critical-historic reconstruction of the fundamental concepts in linguistic theory, such as levels of adequacy in a theory of grammar; rules, representations and derivations; restrictions and locality; principles and parameters of Universal Grammar; hierarchy of formal languages and automata; the relation between thought, language and reality; I-language, meaning, truth, sense and reference, virtual conceptual necessity, dualism and methodological minimalism. Discussion of the development of linguistic theory from Cartesian rationalism to the biocognitive approach within modern and contemporary scientific thinking.