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The linguistics wars : Chomsky, Lakoff, and the battle over deep structure / Randy Allen Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harris, Randy Allen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linguistics--History--20th century.
- Linguistics.
- Generative grammar.
- Chomsky, Noam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 547 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen Harris portrays the extraordinary personalities that were central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the data, technical developments, and social currents that fueled the unfolding and expanding schism.
- Notes:
- Previous edition: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-760866-3
- 0-19-760865-5
- OCLC:
- 1285712312
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