1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00052699

Autore

STRONG, Kenneth

Titolo

Ox against the Storm: A Biography of Tanaka Shozo, Japan's Conservationist Pioneer / Kenneth Strong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

s.l., : University of British Columbia Press, 1977

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, 231 p. ; 22 cm

Classificazione

GIA IV B

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911140040503321

Autore

Harris Randy Allen

Titolo

The linguistics wars / / Randy Allen Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-983906-9

1-280-76075-3

9786610760756

0-19-802368-5

0-19-534460-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

410.904

410/.904

Soggetti

Generative grammar

Linguistics - History - 20th century

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Language, Thought, and the Linguistics Wars; 2.



Linguistics; 3. The Chomskyan Revolution; 4. The Beauty of Deep Structure; 5. Generative Semantics 1: The Model; 6. Generative Semantics 2: The Heresy; 7. The Vicissitudes of War; 8. Generative Semantics 3: The Ethos; 9. Generative Semantics 4: The Collapse; 10. Whence and Whither; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching it to a new brand of psychology. Rapidly, all of Chomsky's ideas swept the field. While the entrenched linguists were not looking for a messiah, apparently many of their students were. There was a re