Chomskyan (r)evolutions
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Chomskyan (r)evolutions
John Benjamins, c2010
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Chomskyan revolutions
Chomskyan evolutions
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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.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Foreword and Acknowledgments
- 2. Chomsky's Atavistic Revolution (with a little help from his enemies) (by Joseph, John E.)
- 3. The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar (by Beedham, Christopher)
- 4. Chomsky's paradigm: What it includes and what it excludes (by Radwanska-Williams, Joanna)
- 5. Part I. The young revolutionary (1950-1960)
- 6. "Scientific revolutions" and other kinds of regime change (by Murray, Stephen O.)
- 7. Noam and Zellig (by Nevin, Bruce E.)
- 8. Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b (by Daniels, Peter T.)
- 9. Grammar and language in Syntactic Structures: Transformational progress and structuralist 'reflux' (by Swiggers, Pierre)
- 10. Part II. The cognitive revolution
- 11. Chomsky's other Revolution (by Harris, Randy Allen)
- 12. Chomsky between revolutions (by Hyman, Malcolm D.)
- 13. Part III. Evolutions
- 14. What do we talk about, when we talk about 'universal grammar', and how have we talked about it? (by Thomas, Margaret)
- 15. Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar (by Tomalin, Marcus)
- 16. Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics: The first 'superhominid' and the language faculty (by Hutton, Christopher)
- 17. The evolution of meaning and grammar: Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization (by Christy, T. Craig)
- 18. Chomsky in search of a pedigree (by Hamans, Camiel S.J.N.)
- 19. The "linguistic wars": A tentative assessment by an outsider witness (by Graffi, Giorgio)
- 20. Part IV. The Past and Future Directions
- 21. British empiricism and Transformational Grammar: A current debate (by Leon, Jacqueline)
- 22. Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics (by Andresen, Julie T.)
- 23. Name index
- 24. Subject index
- 25. Index of cited works
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