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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970829503321

Autore

Newmeyer Frederick J

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1996

ISBN

1-134-82050-X

1-134-82051-8

1-280-32303-5

0-203-21867-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Routledge history of linguistic thought series

History of linguistic thought

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Generative grammar - History

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.