Language and
Responsibility

Chomsky in conversation, and the clearest single statement of how the two halves of his work connect. Based on conversations with MITSOU RONAT and originally published in France as Dialogues avec Mitsou Ronat (Flammarion, 1977); copyright 1977 Flammarion, English translation and revisions copyright 1979 Noam Chomsky. ISBN 0-394-73619-2 paperback; LC 78-53921. Part I is “Linguistics and Politics” — politics, the human sciences, empiricism and rationalism; Part II is “Generative Grammar”, including “The Birth of Generative Grammar” and “Universal Grammar and Unresolved Questions”.