The Minimalist Program (book)

"The Minimalist Program," by Noam Chomsky, explores how human language is built with a focus on its innate, biological foundations. It proposes that our brains possess a core set of universal rules that shape all languages, allowing us to generate and understand an infinite variety of sentences with minimal effort. The book seeks to identify the simplest, most efficient principles underlying language structure, emphasizing that language evolved to be as economical as possible. Overall, it aims to explain the deep connections between language, cognition, and the human mind through elegant, universal grammatical rules.