NOAM CHOMSKY’S UNIVERSALISM WITHIN A COGNITIVE PARADIGM OF WORLD LINGUISTICS

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of Noam Chomsky’s universalism within a cognitive paradigm of word linguistics; various scientific approaches to the problem are generalized; the main features of the universal theory of Noam Chomsky nature ability for language is the basis for the problem of the relationship between language and mind are outlined; the idea of transformational-generative grammar of Noam Chomsky on language as a generative mechanism of mental representations and their modeling reflected in cognitive linguistics is proved. The author draws attention to the language acquisition which is
based on the man’s discovery of what from a formal point of view is a deep and abstract theory – a generative grammar of his language – many of the concepts and principles of which are only remotly related to experience by long and intricate chains of unconscious quasi-inferential steps. The understanding of nature of the language human abilities as an opportunity to build a generative mechanism that creates a universal basis for the mind activity is pointed out.