What linguistics is all aboutPour en savoir plusOne of the best sources of information about language is a recent book by an MIT linguist: Steven Pinker. The language instinct. Penguin books, 1994.Steven Pinker. L'instinct du langage. Odile Jacob, 1999. Mitkov, ed. The Oxford handbook of computational linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2003. Jackendoff, Ray. Foundations of language : brain, meaning, grammar evolution. Oxford University Press, 2002. Bob Carpenter. Type-Logical Semantics. MIT Press. 1998. Johan van Benthem and Alice ter Meulen, eds. Handbook of Logic and Language. Elsevier Science, 1997. Patrick Blackburn and Johan Bos. Representation and Inference for Natural Language, A First Course in Computational Semantics. CSLI, 2005. Christian Retoré. The Logic of Categorial Grammars: Lecture Notes. Download Jacques Sakarovitch. Éléments de théorie des automates. Vuibert Informatique, 2003. Deux ouvrages classiques: Noam Chomsky. Syntactic Structures. Mouton, 1957. Traduit en français comme: Structures syntaxiques. Seuil Points, 1969. Roman Jakobson. Six leçons sur le son et le sens. Éditions de Minuit, 1976. An older reference, containing many useful facts about the history of linguistics: Max Müller. La Science du langage. 1864. A recent exposition of links between biology and language, in French: Jean-Marie Hombert (éd.) Aux origines des langues et du langage. Fayard, 2005. |