The linguistics wars / Randy Allen Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Randy Allen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative grammar.

Linguistics--History--20th century.

Linguistics.

Chomsky, Noam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-983906-9

1-280-76075-3

9786610760756

0-19-802368-5

0-19-534460-X

OCLC:

437115192