The linguistics wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the battle over deep structure

"This book chronicles the history of linguistics from the 1950s rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar, in alliance with cognitive psychology and Artificial Intelligence, to the current day. It centers on a highly consequential dispute at a key moment of that rise, the relative im...

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Beteilige Person: Harris, Randy Allen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2021
Ausgabe:Second edition
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Zusammenfassung:"This book chronicles the history of linguistics from the 1950s rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar, in alliance with cognitive psychology and Artificial Intelligence, to the current day. It centers on a highly consequential dispute at a key moment of that rise, the relative importance of structure and meaning. The dispute marks a rupture between what looked to be an approaching Chomskyan hegemony in theory and a flowering of alternate approaches that complement but do not replace his approach, as well as some that advance it in various ways. The rupture was between the theory of Generative Semantics, pushing to include more and more meaning into linguistic theory, and Interpretive Semantics, which resisted that push, putting more and more focus on linguistic structure. But in many ways the dispute can be reduced to George Lakoff, the most prominent voice on the more-meaning side, and Noam Chomsky on the more-structure side.
Beschreibung:First edition: 1993
Umfang:xvi, 547 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm