Port-Royal Grammar

The grammar of Port -Royal (actually Grammaire générale et raisonnée contenant les fondemens de l'art de parler, expliqués d'une manière claire et naturelle, " General and rational grammar, including the basis of the art of speaking, explains in a clear and natural way " ) was a pioneering work of philosophy of language.

It was published in 1660 by Antoine Arnauld and Claude Lancelot. Arnauld wrote two years later along with Pierre Nicole also the logic of Port -Royal. Both are named after the Jansenist monastery Port-Royal -des- Champs, where the authors have worked. The grammar was heavily influenced by the Regulae ad referred directionem ingenii of René Descartes and was developed by Noam Chomsky as an example par excellence of the Cartesian linguistics. A central, complaining of Chomsky as an indication of precursor stem to its universal grammar statement of the grammar is that grammatical structures through universal mental structures can be explained.