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Subject(s)

• Generative grammar—History [Browse]
• Chomsky, Noam [Browse]

Series

• Routledge history of linguistic thought series. [More in this series]
• History of linguistic thought

Summary note

• 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 to apply generative theory to second language acquisition.
• These articles, many of which have never been published before, will inevitably fan the fames of controversy still raging in this field. Newmeyer's audacious conclusions and his argument that generative semantics collapsed because it was empirically disproved challenge much current thinking.
• Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging re-appraisal of the 'Chomskyan Revolution' - the implications of which are still being debated some thirty years further on.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 --
• 12. The ontogenesis of the field of second language learning research / Frederick J. Newmeyer and Steven H. Weinberger
• 13. The current convergence in linguistic theory: Some implications for second language acquisition research
• 14. Competence vs. performance; theoretical vs. applied: The development and interplay of two dichotomies in modern linguistics.

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ISBN

0415115531

LCCN

94032379

OCLC

503590272

RCP

C - S

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