Generative linguistics : a historical perspective /

Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origin and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years, the essays address the nature of the 'Chomskyan Revolution', the deep structure debates of the 1970s, and the attempts...

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Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:
Generative grammar > Generative linguistics
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bloomfield, Jakobson, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar
  • 3. The structure of the field of linguistics and its consequences for women
  • 4. Has there been a 'Chomskyan revolution' in linguistics?
  • 5. Rules and principles in the historical development of generative syntax
  • 6. Chomsky's 1962 programme for linguistics: A retrospective / Frederick J. Newmeyer, Stephen R. Anderson, Sandra Chung and James McCloskey
  • 7. Linguistic diversity and universal grammar: Forty years of dynamic tension within generative grammar
  • 8. The steps to generative semantics
  • 9. The end of generative semantics
  • 10. Review of Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith, Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates
  • 11. Review of The Best of CLS: A Selection of Out-of-Print Papers from 1968 to 1975, edited by Eric Schiller, Barbara Need, Douglas Varley, and William H. Eilfort.

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