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| adam_text | Contents Foreword List ofAbbreviations Timeline 1. The structuralist ascendancy in American linguistics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 American linguistics in the mid-twentieth century 1.3 The Linguistic Society of America 1.3.1 The founding of the Society 1.3.2 Linguistics, philology, and their relationship to science 1.3.3 The leadership and composition of the early LSA 1.4 The changes in the field from the 1920s to the 1940s 1.4.1 The LSA Executive Committee in 1936 and in 1946 1.4.2 The changing contents of the first quarter-century of Language 1.5 Some reasons for the dramatic changes in American linguistics from the 1920s to the 1950s 1.5.1 The sense of a distinctive field making rapid progress 1.5.2 The leading American linguists’ commitment to the equality of all languages and their analysis 1.5.3 The LSAs summer Linguistic Institutes 1.5.4 American linguists’ involvement in World War II 1.5.5 The change ofleadership in the LSA in 1940-1941 1.6 Summary 2. American structuralism and European structuralism 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The early American linguists’debt to Europe 2.2.1 The European background of many American linguists 2.2.2 American linguists and the early Prague School 2.2.3 American linguists and the early Geneva School 2.3 The American structuralists’ turn away from Europe 2.3.1 The American structuralists’ view of science and its consequences 2.3.2 The Second World War and the two-dollar bill conspiracy 2.4 European views of American linguistics 2.5 The American rediscovery of European linguistics xi xv xvi 1 1 2 6 6 11 12 17 18 20 21 21 24 27 32 35 42 43 43 44 44
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vi CONTENTS 2.5.1 Roman Jakobson, the École Libre des Hautes Études, and the founding of Word 2.5.2 Increasing American appreciation of European hnguistics 2.6 The European reaction to early generative grammar 2.7 The Prague School influence on American functional linguistics 2.8 Summary 3. Martin Joos’s Readings in Linguistics as the apogee of American structuralism 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Background to Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.2.1 Bernard Bloch’s idea for a collection 3.2.2 The American Council of Learned Societies 3.2.3 Martin Joos 3.2.4 Why Joos was chosen as editor of the Readings 3.3 Joos takes on the editor’s role 3.3.1 Joos’s letter of September 12,1955 3.3.2 Reactions to Joos’s letter 3.4 The first edition of Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.4.1 The contents of the first edition 3.4.2 Joos’s editorial commentary in the first edition 3.5 The later editions of the Readings 3.5.1 The second and third editions (1958 and 1963) 3.5.2 Ihe fourth edition (1966) 3.5.3 Ihe first four editions: A summary comment 3.5.4 Ihe abridged edition (1995) 3.6 A visual display of the progression of the book of readings 3.7 The reviews of Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.7.1 Ihe ‘non-reviews’ in Language and Word 3.7.2 Ihe Voegelin review in IJAL 3.7.3 Ihe Hymes review in American Anthropologist 3.7.4 The Uhienbeck review in Lingua 3.7.5 The MacQueen review in Quarterly Journal of Speech 3.7.6 Ihe Trager review in Studies in Linguistics 3.7.7 The Pei review in Modern Language Journal 3.7.8 The Lightner review in General Linguistics 3.7.9 The reviews: A summary 3.8 Further remarks on
the Readings 3.8.1 Ihe Readings in the classroom 3.8.2 On the ‘staying power’ of Joos’s Readings 3.9 Conclusion 65 71 75 77 79 80 80 81 81 83 84 86 87 87 91 96 96 100 103 104 105 107 108 109 113 114 115 116 117 118 118 119 119 120 121 121 122 126
CONTENTS VÜ 4. Early transformational generative grammar: Some controversial issues 127 4.1 Introduction 127 4.2 Early transformational generativegrammar: A whirlwind overview 127 4.2.1 Syntactic Structures 128 4.2.2 What came before Syntactic Structures 134 4.2.3 Generative phonology 137 4.2.4 From Syntactic Structures to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 139 4.3 On the question of a ‘Chomskyan revolution’ 141 4.3.1 On scientific revolutions 141 4.3.2 The originality of transformational generative grammar 144 4.3.3 The roots of transformational generative grammar in earlier work 145 4.4 The mainstream reaction to early transformational generative grammar 156 4.4.1 The reaction to Syntactic Structures and other early syntactic studies 157 4.4.2 The reaction to early generative phonology 160 4.4.3 The reaction to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 160 4.5 Chomsky in the spotlight: Examining some of his claims about his early days 161 4.5.1 Ί have never heard of the alleged offers to publish LSLT 161 4.5.2 ‘My MMH was written, I regret to say, in ignorance of Bloomfield’s study’ 164 4.5.3 ‘It’s next to inconceivable, for example, that Harris looked at my Ph. D. dissertation or LSLT 165 4.5.4 Tn editing [ISIT] for publication now, I have made no attempt to bring it up to date or to introduce revisions in the light of subsequent work 169 4.6 Linguistics, MIT, Chomsky, and the military 172 4.6.1 Linguistics and the military 173 4.6.2 MIT and the military 174 4.6.3 Chomsky and the military 176 4.7 Summary 181 5. The diffusion of generativist ideas 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The beginnings
of generative grammar at MIT 5.3 Accusations of private knowledge’ 5.4 The early generative grammarians were committed to publication 5.5 On the so-called ‘underground literature’ 5.5.1 Polished manuscripts ‘deliberately circulated privately1 5.5.2 The institutional and laboratory reports 183 183 185 186 188 190 190 194
viii CONTENTS 5.5.3 The third type of ‘underground literature’ and McCawley’s edited volume 5.5.4 More informal publication outlets 5.5.5 A little historical perspective 5.5.6 Summary 5.6 Further examples of MIT outreach 5.6.1 Textbooks 5.6.2 LSA and other meetings 5.6.3 Linguistic Institutes 5.6.4 Visitors to MIT 5.6.5 Generative grammarians outside of MIT 5.7 Some explanations for the spread of the ‘private knowledge’ idea 5.7.1 The consequences of a rapidly evolving discipline 5.7.2 Aggressive and insular public behavior 5.7.3 MIT student mentality 5.8 Conclusion 196 197 198 199 200 200 201 202 203 205 208 209 209 211 215 6. The European reception of early transformational generative grammar 6.1 Introduction 6.2 TGG in Europe: Some general remarks 6.3 TGG in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown 6.3.1 Western Europe 6.3.2 Nordic Europe 6.3.3 Eastern Europe 6.3.4 Southern Europe 6.4 Concluding remarks 216 216 216 218 218 235 242 253 260 7. The contested LSA presidential election of 1970 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The antagonists: Martin Joos and Dwight Bolinger 7.2.1 Martin Joos 7.2.2 Dwight Bolinger 7.3 The prelude to the 1970 election 7.3.1 The LSA in early 1970 7.3.2 The 1970 Nominating Committee 7.3.3 Bolinger challenges Joos 7.4 The internal debate over the contested election 7.5 The election results and their aftermath 7.6 Concluding remarks 261 261 262 262 263 266 266 268 270 274 279 281 8. Charles Hockett’s attempt to resign from the LSA in 1982 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Charles Hockett 8.3 The LSA’s Fund for the Future of Linguistics 8.4 Hockett takes action 282 282 283
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CONTENTS 8.5 Hockett’s perception of the field and reality 8.6 Concluding remarks 9. The generativist non-dominance of the field in the 1970s and 1980s 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generativist predominance (or not) in LSA elected offices 9.2.1 The Presidents of the LSA 9.2.2 The Secretary-Treasurers of the LSA 9.2.3 The Editors of Language 9.3 Generative predominance (or not) in the pages of Language 9.4 Generative predominance (or not) at LSA meetings 9.5 Generative predominance (or not) at LSA summer Institutes 9.6 Generative predominance (or not) in obtaining grants 9.6.1 National Science Foundation grants 9.6.2 American Council of Learned Society grants 9.6.3 Guggenheim Foundation grants 9.6.4 National Endowment for the Humanities grants 9.6.5 Fulbright-Hayes (and other Fulbright-related) awards 9.6.6 National Institute of Mental Health grants 9.6.7 Ford Foundation grants 9.7 Generative predominance (or not) in departmental composition 9.7.1 PhD programs in linguistics in 1987 9.7.2 Job postings in 1987 9.8 Discussion Appendix A: The members of the LSA Executive Committee in the 1970s and 1980s Appendix B: The members of the LSA Nominating Committee in the 1970s and 1980s 326 Appendix C: Associate Editors of and example articles in Language in the 1970s and 1980s 328 Cl: The Associate Editors of Language in the 1970s and 1980s C2: The articles in Language in 1970,1980, and 1989 Appendix D: The members of the LSA Program Committee in the 1970s and the 1980s 333 Appendix E: Grant recipients in American linguistics in the 1970s and 1980s 335 El: National Science Foundation,
Division of Social Sciences, Grants in support of linguistics research awarded during fiscal years 1966 through 1972 E2: ACLS grantees mentioned in an LSA Bulletin between 1970 and 1989 ІХ 296 297 298 298 303 303 304 305 305 308 311 312 312 315 315 316 316 316 317 317 317 318 320 324 328 329 335 346
X CONTENTS ЕЗ: National Endowment for the Humanities Grants in Linguistics: 1970,1980, and 1989 E4: Fulbright-Hays (and other Fulbright) grants mentioned in an LSA Bulletin between 1970 and 1989 [with presentation, punctuation, etc. as printed in the Bulletin] E5: National Institute of Mental Health grants in 1973 Afterword References Index ofNames Index of Subjects 350 353 356 358 359 394 409
Foreword I am probably best known for my book Linguistic Theory in America: The First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar (LTA), published in 1980, with a second edition appearing six years later (Newmeyer 1980, 1986b). While the reviews and general reaction to the book were largely positive, there were two criticisms that were raised by more than one reader. First, there was a general feeling that I treated the structural linguists who preceded transforma tional generative grammar (TGG) with little respect and even less understanding. Second, there were objections to the ‘triumphalist’ tone that pervaded the book. A number of reviewers felt that I exaggerated both the intellectual success of the theory (as measured by the number of its adherents worldwide) and its organi zational success (as measured by institutional dominance). Over forty years of reflection have led me to conclude that these critics were essentially correct. This book is in part an attempt to set the record straight, as far as these two issues are concerned. But more basically, my goal here is to explore in depth the transition from post-Bloomfieldian structuralism, which dominated the American linguis tics scene from the 1930s to the 1950s, to TGG, which had largely eclipsed it by around 1970. As far as the post-Bloomfieldian structuralists are concerned, I devote the first chapter, ‘The structuralist ascendancy in American linguistics’, to a thorough ex amination of the sources of their ideas and, even more importantly, to how, for a generation or more, they managed to be so
successful. I argue that several feetors contributed to their success: the conviction of its leading practitioners that they were doing ‘scientific linguistics’, the feeling that knowledge and understand ing were growing by leaps and bounds, the ‘egalitarian’ message that all languages could be analyzed by the same methods, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)sponsored summer schools that helped spread knowledge of structuralist theory, the government-sponsored work in linguistics during the Second World War, and the change in the LSA leadership around 1940. As far as my misguided triumphalism is concerned, I devote the final chapter, ‘The generativist non-dominance of the field in the 1970s and 1980s’, to docu menting and attempting to explain why generative grammarians, despite the high visibility of their theory and the celebrity of Noam Chomsky, were so relatively unsuccessful in achieving organizational power in the United States during those decades (I take it for granted that the question would not even arise in most other countries). As measured by their occupation of LSA elected offices, articles in the
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Contents Foreword List ofAbbreviations Timeline 1. The structuralist ascendancy in American linguistics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 American linguistics in the mid-twentieth century 1.3 The Linguistic Society of America 1.3.1 The founding of the Society 1.3.2 Linguistics, philology, and their relationship to science 1.3.3 The leadership and composition of the early LSA 1.4 The changes in the field from the 1920s to the 1940s 1.4.1 The LSA Executive Committee in 1936 and in 1946 1.4.2 The changing contents of the first quarter-century of Language 1.5 Some reasons for the dramatic changes in American linguistics from the 1920s to the 1950s 1.5.1 The sense of a distinctive field making rapid progress 1.5.2 The leading American linguists’ commitment to the equality of all languages and their analysis 1.5.3 The LSAs summer Linguistic Institutes 1.5.4 American linguists’ involvement in World War II 1.5.5 The change ofleadership in the LSA in 1940-1941 1.6 Summary 2. American structuralism and European structuralism 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The early American linguists’debt to Europe 2.2.1 The European background of many American linguists 2.2.2 American linguists and the early Prague School 2.2.3 American linguists and the early Geneva School 2.3 The American structuralists’ turn away from Europe 2.3.1 The American structuralists’ view of science and its consequences 2.3.2 The Second World War and the two-dollar bill conspiracy 2.4 European views of American linguistics 2.5 The American rediscovery of European linguistics xi xv xvi 1 1 2 6 6 11 12 17 18 20 21 21 24 27 32 35 42 43 43 44 44
45 46 53 53 58 60 65
vi CONTENTS 2.5.1 Roman Jakobson, the École Libre des Hautes Études, and the founding of Word 2.5.2 Increasing American appreciation of European hnguistics 2.6 The European reaction to early generative grammar 2.7 The Prague School influence on American functional linguistics 2.8 Summary 3. Martin Joos’s Readings in Linguistics as the apogee of American structuralism 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Background to Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.2.1 Bernard Bloch’s idea for a collection 3.2.2 The American Council of Learned Societies 3.2.3 Martin Joos 3.2.4 Why Joos was chosen as editor of the Readings 3.3 Joos takes on the editor’s role 3.3.1 Joos’s letter of September 12,1955 3.3.2 Reactions to Joos’s letter 3.4 The first edition of Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.4.1 The contents of the first edition 3.4.2 Joos’s editorial commentary in the first edition 3.5 The later editions of the Readings 3.5.1 The second and third editions (1958 and 1963) 3.5.2 Ihe fourth edition (1966) 3.5.3 Ihe first four editions: A summary comment 3.5.4 Ihe abridged edition (1995) 3.6 A visual display of the progression of the book of readings 3.7 The reviews of Joos’s Readings in Linguistics 3.7.1 Ihe ‘non-reviews’ in Language and Word 3.7.2 Ihe Voegelin review in IJAL 3.7.3 Ihe Hymes review in American Anthropologist 3.7.4 The Uhienbeck review in Lingua 3.7.5 The MacQueen review in Quarterly Journal of Speech 3.7.6 Ihe Trager review in Studies in Linguistics 3.7.7 The Pei review in Modern Language Journal 3.7.8 The Lightner review in General Linguistics 3.7.9 The reviews: A summary 3.8 Further remarks on
the Readings 3.8.1 Ihe Readings in the classroom 3.8.2 On the ‘staying power’ of Joos’s Readings 3.9 Conclusion 65 71 75 77 79 80 80 81 81 83 84 86 87 87 91 96 96 100 103 104 105 107 108 109 113 114 115 116 117 118 118 119 119 120 121 121 122 126
CONTENTS VÜ 4. Early transformational generative grammar: Some controversial issues 127 4.1 Introduction 127 4.2 Early transformational generativegrammar: A whirlwind overview 127 4.2.1 Syntactic Structures 128 4.2.2 What came before Syntactic Structures 134 4.2.3 Generative phonology 137 4.2.4 From Syntactic Structures to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 139 4.3 On the question of a ‘Chomskyan revolution’ 141 4.3.1 On scientific revolutions 141 4.3.2 The originality of transformational generative grammar 144 4.3.3 The roots of transformational generative grammar in earlier work 145 4.4 The mainstream reaction to early transformational generative grammar 156 4.4.1 The reaction to Syntactic Structures and other early syntactic studies 157 4.4.2 The reaction to early generative phonology 160 4.4.3 The reaction to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 160 4.5 Chomsky in the spotlight: Examining some of his claims about his early days 161 4.5.1 Ί have never heard of the alleged offers to publish LSLT 161 4.5.2 ‘My MMH was written, I regret to say, in ignorance of Bloomfield’s study’ 164 4.5.3 ‘It’s next to inconceivable, for example, that Harris looked at my Ph. D. dissertation or LSLT 165 4.5.4 Tn editing [ISIT] for publication now, I have made no attempt to bring it up to date or to introduce revisions in the light of subsequent work 169 4.6 Linguistics, MIT, Chomsky, and the military 172 4.6.1 Linguistics and the military 173 4.6.2 MIT and the military 174 4.6.3 Chomsky and the military 176 4.7 Summary 181 5. The diffusion of generativist ideas 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The beginnings
of generative grammar at MIT 5.3 Accusations of private knowledge’ 5.4 The early generative grammarians were committed to publication 5.5 On the so-called ‘underground literature’ 5.5.1 Polished manuscripts ‘deliberately circulated privately1 5.5.2 The institutional and laboratory reports 183 183 185 186 188 190 190 194
viii CONTENTS 5.5.3 The third type of ‘underground literature’ and McCawley’s edited volume 5.5.4 More informal publication outlets 5.5.5 A little historical perspective 5.5.6 Summary 5.6 Further examples of MIT outreach 5.6.1 Textbooks 5.6.2 LSA and other meetings 5.6.3 Linguistic Institutes 5.6.4 Visitors to MIT 5.6.5 Generative grammarians outside of MIT 5.7 Some explanations for the spread of the ‘private knowledge’ idea 5.7.1 The consequences of a rapidly evolving discipline 5.7.2 Aggressive and insular public behavior 5.7.3 MIT student mentality 5.8 Conclusion 196 197 198 199 200 200 201 202 203 205 208 209 209 211 215 6. The European reception of early transformational generative grammar 6.1 Introduction 6.2 TGG in Europe: Some general remarks 6.3 TGG in Europe: A country-by-country breakdown 6.3.1 Western Europe 6.3.2 Nordic Europe 6.3.3 Eastern Europe 6.3.4 Southern Europe 6.4 Concluding remarks 216 216 216 218 218 235 242 253 260 7. The contested LSA presidential election of 1970 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The antagonists: Martin Joos and Dwight Bolinger 7.2.1 Martin Joos 7.2.2 Dwight Bolinger 7.3 The prelude to the 1970 election 7.3.1 The LSA in early 1970 7.3.2 The 1970 Nominating Committee 7.3.3 Bolinger challenges Joos 7.4 The internal debate over the contested election 7.5 The election results and their aftermath 7.6 Concluding remarks 261 261 262 262 263 266 266 268 270 274 279 281 8. Charles Hockett’s attempt to resign from the LSA in 1982 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Charles Hockett 8.3 The LSA’s Fund for the Future of Linguistics 8.4 Hockett takes action 282 282 283
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CONTENTS 8.5 Hockett’s perception of the field and reality 8.6 Concluding remarks 9. The generativist non-dominance of the field in the 1970s and 1980s 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Generativist predominance (or not) in LSA elected offices 9.2.1 The Presidents of the LSA 9.2.2 The Secretary-Treasurers of the LSA 9.2.3 The Editors of Language 9.3 Generative predominance (or not) in the pages of Language 9.4 Generative predominance (or not) at LSA meetings 9.5 Generative predominance (or not) at LSA summer Institutes 9.6 Generative predominance (or not) in obtaining grants 9.6.1 National Science Foundation grants 9.6.2 American Council of Learned Society grants 9.6.3 Guggenheim Foundation grants 9.6.4 National Endowment for the Humanities grants 9.6.5 Fulbright-Hayes (and other Fulbright-related) awards 9.6.6 National Institute of Mental Health grants 9.6.7 Ford Foundation grants 9.7 Generative predominance (or not) in departmental composition 9.7.1 PhD programs in linguistics in 1987 9.7.2 Job postings in 1987 9.8 Discussion Appendix A: The members of the LSA Executive Committee in the 1970s and 1980s Appendix B: The members of the LSA Nominating Committee in the 1970s and 1980s 326 Appendix C: Associate Editors of and example articles in Language in the 1970s and 1980s 328 Cl: The Associate Editors of Language in the 1970s and 1980s C2: The articles in Language in 1970,1980, and 1989 Appendix D: The members of the LSA Program Committee in the 1970s and the 1980s 333 Appendix E: Grant recipients in American linguistics in the 1970s and 1980s 335 El: National Science Foundation,
Division of Social Sciences, Grants in support of linguistics research awarded during fiscal years 1966 through 1972 E2: ACLS grantees mentioned in an LSA Bulletin between 1970 and 1989 ІХ 296 297 298 298 303 303 304 305 305 308 311 312 312 315 315 316 316 316 317 317 317 318 320 324 328 329 335 346
X CONTENTS ЕЗ: National Endowment for the Humanities Grants in Linguistics: 1970,1980, and 1989 E4: Fulbright-Hays (and other Fulbright) grants mentioned in an LSA Bulletin between 1970 and 1989 [with presentation, punctuation, etc. as printed in the Bulletin] E5: National Institute of Mental Health grants in 1973 Afterword References Index ofNames Index of Subjects 350 353 356 358 359 394 409
Foreword I am probably best known for my book Linguistic Theory in America: The First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar (LTA), published in 1980, with a second edition appearing six years later (Newmeyer 1980, 1986b). While the reviews and general reaction to the book were largely positive, there were two criticisms that were raised by more than one reader. First, there was a general feeling that I treated the structural linguists who preceded transforma tional generative grammar (TGG) with little respect and even less understanding. Second, there were objections to the ‘triumphalist’ tone that pervaded the book. A number of reviewers felt that I exaggerated both the intellectual success of the theory (as measured by the number of its adherents worldwide) and its organi zational success (as measured by institutional dominance). Over forty years of reflection have led me to conclude that these critics were essentially correct. This book is in part an attempt to set the record straight, as far as these two issues are concerned. But more basically, my goal here is to explore in depth the transition from post-Bloomfieldian structuralism, which dominated the American linguis tics scene from the 1930s to the 1950s, to TGG, which had largely eclipsed it by around 1970. As far as the post-Bloomfieldian structuralists are concerned, I devote the first chapter, ‘The structuralist ascendancy in American linguistics’, to a thorough ex amination of the sources of their ideas and, even more importantly, to how, for a generation or more, they managed to be so
successful. I argue that several feetors contributed to their success: the conviction of its leading practitioners that they were doing ‘scientific linguistics’, the feeling that knowledge and understand ing were growing by leaps and bounds, the ‘egalitarian’ message that all languages could be analyzed by the same methods, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)sponsored summer schools that helped spread knowledge of structuralist theory, the government-sponsored work in linguistics during the Second World War, and the change in the LSA leadership around 1940. As far as my misguided triumphalism is concerned, I devote the final chapter, ‘The generativist non-dominance of the field in the 1970s and 1980s’, to docu menting and attempting to explain why generative grammarians, despite the high visibility of their theory and the celebrity of Noam Chomsky, were so relatively unsuccessful in achieving organizational power in the United States during those decades (I take it for granted that the question would not even arise in most other countries). As measured by their occupation of LSA elected offices, articles in the |
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| title | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar |
| title_auth | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar |
| title_exact_search | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar |
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| title_full | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar Frederick J. Newmeyer |
| title_fullStr | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar Frederick J. Newmeyer |
| title_full_unstemmed | American linguistics in transition from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar Frederick J. Newmeyer |
| title_short | American linguistics in transition |
| title_sort | american linguistics in transition from post bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar |
| title_sub | from Post-Bloomfieldian structuralism to generative grammar |
| topic | Chomsky, Noam 1928- (DE-588)118520520 gnd Massachusetts Institute of Technology (DE-588)2179-9 gnd Generative Grammatik (DE-588)4113707-3 gnd Linguistik (DE-588)4074250-7 gnd |
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