Noam Chomsky, Fundamental Issues in Linguistics (April 2019 at MIT) - Lecture 2

[@BrenoAguiar97]

I'm a brazilian linguistics student, can't even tell how blessed i feel on learning from Chomsky at YT lecture.

[@AsEnIxX-wtf]

Thanks for uploading the two lectures.

[@moctarbebaha7582]

This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing

[@carlitosgl]

17:57 exocentric constructions! yeah!

[@SubconsciousNarration]

Thank you very much.

[@FuaConsternation]

57:57 has by far the most cogent epiphany about linguistics in relation to reality.

[@dahoonkim1985]

Can somebody explain why is it illegal in 9:19 ? Why is it violating all the movement?

[@madelinemontalvo6151]

It would be great if we were all as intelligent ! He's a gem.

[@MartinHaumann1]

Can someone within the field point towards the best textbooks to get into the theories, where the field is and the immediate frontier technical tasks ahead for bio-linguistics? Thank you.

[@cockatooinsunglasses7492]

You should ask that question on Quora to a linguist. You may even want to email Noam Chomsky himself. Be aware that he does take hundreds of emails daily.

[@LalaForJabba]

If you want to get into this field, you should read a bit on its evolution first, so I'd suggest you start with Chomsky's Syntactic Structures, follow with the basics on the Principles and Parameters Theory (Haegman has a good textbook, Introduction to Government and Binding), and then read on Minimalism (for instance Hornstein, Nunes, and Grohmann, Understanding Minimalism). The field is constantly evolving, but to understand its ties to bio-linguistics, you should look into neurolinguistics and its history first, to see how that evolved as well. Start with the basics on the language faculty, for instance Pinker, The Language Instinct, and you can go on with more complex stuff (I recommend Hauser, M., N. Chomsky, and W. T. Fitch (2002) “The Language Faculty: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?” in Science, 298, 1569-1579). Hope it helped!

[@g00gIeruinedYT]

@@LalaForJabba Thanks!

[@Danicabal]

Can you understand Spanish?

[@MartinHaumann1]

@@Danicabal no unfortunately not. But since this post I have followed the nice recommendations of the people on here and found some great books on biolinguistics. !

[@9000ck]

Noam enjoying himself at minute 25.

[@markdavid1208]

Nice to hear the late Jim McCawley get a couple shoutouts.

[@johnhelm6231]

Linguistic studies 💯.

[@megakeenbeen]

What's the spelling of the person he referenced? Rene Huybrechts?

[@FuaConsternation]

i feel sorry for the folks asking questions around the hour mark. they don't have the luxury of going for naps, sleeping on it, and generally taking days to watch Nim Chimsky pack an infinite array of epiphanies into a finite packet of time

[@FuaConsternation]

1:07:00 okay, they really need to shut the hell up...skip to 01:13:00 to resume the talk

[@albertnguyen7281]

bro calm down its 6 mins out of almost 2 hours you can handle some questions buddy

[@FuaConsternation]

@@albertnguyen7281i was rewatching this and i'm so glad I made that timestamp. So much mansplaining mainstream shiite to NC. But thanks for the hate mail. love it. another at 1:33:19 skip to 1:41:49

[@shindesujata950]

Automatic written by computer program when I think

[@leonsantamaria9845]

Im domy ...l don't understand to much... and I don't like....l like to understand....lm so mad my self...l love to learning linguistics, is not easy.... get Noam Chomsky...👍😵‍💫

[@JoyceElroy-z9w]

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[@Texan_Space_Cowboy]

How did I get here and what the fuck are they talking about.

[@leonsantamaria9845]

Linguistic sintaxis... and yes is hard ..l don't understand to much...👍

[@bassplayer1966]

I DO LOVE THIS GUY! I also believe in Sasquatch...but who really cares right?!

[@dresdenliam]

Let's go Brandon