Chomskyan (r)evolutions / edited by Douglas A. Kibbee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kibbee, Douglas A., Editor.

Contributor:

Kibbee, Douglas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chomsky, Noam.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that "Modern Linguistics began in 1957" (with the publication of Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures). Some of the essays in Chomskyan (R)evolutions examine the sources, the nature and the extent of the theoretical changes Chomsky introduced in the 1950s. Other contributions explore the key concepts and disciplinary alliances that have evolved considerably over the past sixty years, such as the meanings given for "Universal Grammar", the relationship of Chomskyan linguistics to other disciplines (Cognitive Science, Psychology, Evolutionary Biology), and the interactions between mainstream Chomskyan linguistics and other linguistic theories active in the late 20th century: Functionalism, Generative Semantics and Relational Grammar. The broad understanding of the recent history of linguistics points the way towards new directions and methods that linguistics can pursue in the future.

Contents:

Chomsky's atavistic revolution (with a little help from his enemies) / John E. Joseph

The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar / Christopher Beedham

Chomsky's paradigm: what it includes and what it excludes / Joanna Radwanska-Williams

Scientific revolutions' and other kinds of regime change / Stephen O. Murray

Noam and Zellig / Bruce Nevin

Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b / Peter T. Daniels

Grammar and language in syntactic structures: transformational progress and structuralist reflux / Pierre Swiggers

Chomsky's other revolution / R. Allen Harris

Chomsky between revolutions / Malcolm D. Hyman

What do we talk about, when we talk about universal grammar and how have we talked about it? / Margaret Thomas

Migrating propositions and the evolution of generative grammar / Marcus Tomalin

Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics: the first superhominid and the language faculty / Christopher Hutton

The evolution of meaning and grammar: Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization / T. Craig Christy

Chomsky in search of a pedigree / Camiel Hamans & Pieter A.M. Seuren

The linguistics wars: a tentative assessment by an outsider witness / Giorgio Graffi

British empiricism and transformational grammar: a current debate / Jacqueline Léon

Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics / Julie Tetel Andresen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786612558672

9781282558670

1282558676

9789027288486

9027288488

OCLC:

613206437

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.154

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access