Linguistic Theory in America: The first quarter century of transformational generative grammar. By Frederick J. Newmeyer

Murray, Stephen O.

doi:10.1075/hl.8.1.11mur

Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 8:1 (1981) ► pp.107–112

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Linguistic Theory in America: The first quarter century of transformational generative grammar. By Frederick J. Newmeyer

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Stephen O. Murray | University of California, Berkeley

Published online: 1 January 1981

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