Lectures on the Chomskyan Paradigm

The Central Institute of Indian Languages was established on 17" July 1969 with a primary aim to help evolve and implement language policy of the Government of India and co-ordinate the work of various Institutions with regard to the development of Indian languages. In order to achieve the objectives, various projects and programmes are conducted by the Institute. The linguistic research work conducted by the Institute is reflected in numerous publications brought out by the Institute. The Institute invites reputed scholars to deliver series of lectures for the benefit of the faculty. Professor A.K.Sinha of the University of Delhi was invited to deliver a series of five lectures on June 5-9, 2000. The lectures were attended by the faculty and quite a few other scholars. The lectures were found quite useful by the audience. I would like to thank Prof. Sinha for delivering the lectures and for making available the text of the lectures for publication. Although a lot of change would have occurred in what was known as the Chomskyan theory in the intervening seven years, we thought these lectures would be still important for students of linguistics. The fact that the book was sold out so quickly shows its popularity. I trust the readers will find these lectures useful.