1970, ISBN: 9780203218679

Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origins and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years, the essays in Genera… Plus…

Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origins and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years, the essays in Generative Linguistics address the nature of the "Chomskyan Revolution", the deepstructure debates of the 1970s, The Chicago Linguistic Society, the structure of the field of linguistics and its consequences for women and the attempts to apply generative theory to second language acquisition. These Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origins and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years, the essays in Generative Linguistics address the nature of the "Chomskyan Revolution", the deepstructure debates of the 1970s, The Chicago Linguistic Society, the structure of the field of linguistics and its consequences for women 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 flames of controversy still raging in the field. Newmeyer's audacious conclusions and his argument that generative semantics collapsed because it was empirically disproved challenge much current thinking. some thirty years. This makes this book particularly valuable to linguists (The Journal of Indo-European Studies d) EBooks, Books~~Language Arts~~Linguistics~~General, Generative-Linguistics~~Frederick-J-Newmeyer, , , , , , , , , , Taylor & Francis, Inc.<