title: Some core contested concepts.
abstract: Core concepts of language are highly contested. In some cases this is legitimate: real empirical and conceptual issues arise. In other cases, it seems that controversies are based on misunderstanding. A number of crucial cases are reviewed, and an approach to language is outlined that appears to have strong conceptual and empirical motivation, and to lead to conclusions about a number of significant issues that differ from some conventional beliefs.
authors.affiliation: , Cambridge, MA, USA, chomsky@mit.edu.
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Chomsky
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D012660:Semantics