A general theoretical grammar, the Grammaire générale et raisonnée, written by A.Arnauld and E. Lancelot within the framework of French rationalism and named after the famous seventeenth-century Parisian abbey and schools of Port Royal....

Term introduced by N.Chomsky for all rationalistic linguistic approaches based on the approach of the French philosopher R. Descartes (1598–1650), the school of the Port Royal grammar, J.G.Herder and W.von Humboldt ( rationalism). In assuming...

Noam Chomsky's Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought, published in 1966, has the purpose of deepening "our understanding of the nature of language and the mental processes and structures that underlies its use and...