Chomsky's minimalism
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Chomsky's minimalism
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-237) and index
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Contents of Works
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The mechanism of the MP under scrutiny
- 3. The language faculty
- 4. Questions of method and adequacy
- 5. What is functional about the MP?
- 6. What is conceptually necessary about the MP?
- 7. Surface-driven elements of semantic interpretation
- 8. The embarrassment of evidence
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ISBN 9780195173055
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This title argues that Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program is deeply flawed. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the 1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder and unfairly suppressed.
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: pbk ISBN 9780195173062
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Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite being fundamentally misguided, according to distinguished linguist and philosopher of language Pieter Seuren. Seuren's accessible and spirited attack argues that the Minimalist Program is deeply flawed. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the
1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder and unfairly suppressed. Seuren maintains that this suppression, and the cult surrounding Chomsky and Minimalism more generally, has
done great damage to linguistics by impairing open discussion of empirical issues and excluding valid alternatives.
Table of Contents
1: Introduction
2: The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny
3: The Language Faculty
4: Questions of Method and Adequacy
5: What Is Functional about the MP?
6: What Is Conceptually Necessary about the MP?
7: Surface-Driven Elements of Semantic Interpretation
8: The Embarrassment of Evidence
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