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Invited by the University of Siena, Noam Chomsky spent the month
of November 1999 at the Certosa di Pontignano, a fourteenth-century
monastery and now a research facility of the University. It was an extraordinarily
intenseandexcitingmonth,inwhichfacultyandstudents
of the University of Siena had a unique opportunity to come in close
contact with different aspects of Chomsky’s work, discuss science
and politics with him, exchange and sharpen ideas and projects, and
interact with him in many ways. The texts collected in this volume are
related to activities that took place in connection with this visit.
The first chapter provides an introduction to some basic concepts
of linguistic theory and to some elements of the history of the
field which are crucial for understanding certain theoretical questions
addressed in the following chapters.