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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455878103321

Autore

Newmeyer Frederick J.

Titolo

Generative linguistics : a historical perspective / / Frederick J. Newmeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-82051-8

1-280-32303-5

0-203-21867-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Routledge history of linguistic thought series

History of linguistic thought

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-210) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Note on text; Introduction; Bloomfield, Jakobson, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar; The structure of the field of linguistics and its consequences for women; Has there been a 'Chomskyan revolution' in linguistics?; Rules and principles in the historical development of generative syntax; Chomsky's 1962 programme for linguistics: A retrospective Co-authored with; Linguistic diversity and universal grammar: Forty years of dynamic tension within generative grammar; The steps to generative semantics; The end of generative semantics

Review of Geoffrey J.Huck and John A.Goldsmith, Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure DebatesReview of The Best of CLS: A Selection of Out-of-Print Papers from 1968 to 1975; The ontogenesis of the field of second language learning research; The current convergence in linguistic theory: Some implications for second language acquisition research; Competence vs. performance;  theoretical vs. applied: The development and interplay of two dichotomies in modern linguistics; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Written by one of America's most prominent linguists the essays in



Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskyan Revolution' - the implications of which are being debated some three decades on.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252725703321

Titolo

Ancient West Asian Civilization : Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East / / edited by Akira Tsuneki, Shigeo Yamada, Ken-ichiro Hisada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

981-10-0554-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 230 p. 120 illus., 69 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology

Cultural property

Environmental geology

Climatic changes

Cultural Heritage

Geoecology/Natural Processes

Climate Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores aspects of the ancient civilization in West Asia, which has had a great impact on modern human society—agriculture, metallurgy, cities, writing, regional states, and monotheism, all of which appeared first in West Asia during the tenth to first millennia BC. The editors specifically use the term "West Asia" since the "Middle East" is seen as an Eurocentric term. By using this term, the book hopes to mitigate potential bias (i.e. historical and Western) by using a pure geographical term. However, the "West Asia" region is identical to that of the narrower "Middle East," which encompasses modern Iran and Turkey from east to west and Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula from



north to south. This volume assembles research from different disciplines, such as the natural sciences, archaeology and philology/linguistics, in order to tackle the question of which circumstances and processes these significant cultural phenomena occurred in West Asia. Scrutinizing subjects such as the relations between climate, geology and human activities, the origins of wheat cultivation and animal domestication, the development of metallurgy, the birth of urbanization and writing, ancient religious traditions, as well as the treatment of cultural heritage, the book undertakes a comprehensive analysis of West Asian Civilization that provided the common background to cultures in various areas of the globe, including Europe and Asia. These contributions will attempt to demonstrate a fresh vision which emphasizes the common cultural origin between Europe and West Asia, standing in opposition to the global antagonism symbolized by the theory of "Clash of Civilizations.".