Syntactic Structure by Noam Chomsky
So, all the efforts Chomsky puts in linguistic investigation is to find a basic grammar, that can be justified (it must be adequate, but not necessairly meaningful or probable).
Simon Sebag Montefiore "Jerusalem. The biography" A half of this fascinating book I had read in English, until I had shared with my father what interesting I had been reading. To my astonishment my father told me that he had already read it and gave me a volume in Polish. So I turned into my mother's language. There are some notes I did of the English version. First of all Preface makes a breathtaking introduction showing the history of Jerusalem as an pattern of the whole World history. This piece of land, recognized as the Holy City carries the burdens and tragedy of all humanity throughout the centuries. The history of Jerusalem is the history of the world... with this statement the book begins. But this is a peculiar way of writing on history, "In Jerusalem, the truth is often much less important than the myth. “In Jerusalem, don’t ask me the history of facts,” says the eminent Palestinian historian Dr. Nazmi al-Jubeh. “Take away the fction and the...
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