c breakthroughs.One title on the list:
The First Word by Christine Kenneally (Penguin, $16).Read about another title on Johnson's list.
Kenneally’s 2007 book is the story of modern linguistics. Its account of Noam Chomsky’s breakthrough work on generative grammar—and the controversy it sparked—is riveting intellectual history, as is the explanation of Chomsky’s strange resistance to Darwinian explanations of our “language instinct.”
The Page 99 Test: The First Word.
--Marshal Zeringue
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