Michael B. Kac

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael B. Kac is involved.

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Grammars and Grammaticality

Michael B. Kac

At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as “linguistic competence”, “language faculty”, or, more recently, “I-language”. Kac argues for the validity of the… read more

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Kac, Michael B. 2019 A primer for linguistic normativists Normativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 103–124 | Chapter

A normative domain is a realm of action or thought in which it’s necessary to invoke the concepts of requirement/obligation, permission or prohibition. Closely associated with these is that of correctness. A rule of grammar, as this term is traditionally understood (e.g., the requirement that… read more

Kac, Michael B. 2008 Review of Itkonen (2005): Analogy as Structure and Process Studies in Language 32:4, pp. 939–949 | Review

Kac, Michael B. 1996 Foreword Towards a Social Science of Language: Papers in honor of William Labov, Guy, Gregory R., Crawford Feagin, Deborah Schiffrin and John Baugh (eds.), pp. xv–xviii | Foreword

Kac, Michael B. 1994 A Nonpsychological Realist Conception of Linguistic Rules The Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 43–50 | Article

Kac, Michael B. 1993 What is categorical grammar really good for? Principles and Prediction: The analysis of natural language, Eid, Mushira and Gregory Iverson (eds.), pp. 93–104 | Article

Kac, Michael B. 1987 The Notion ‘Rule of Grammar’ Reconsidered Mathematics of Language: Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984, Manaster-Ramer, Alexis (ed.), pp. 115–142 | Article

Kac, Michael B. 1986 Review of Hudson (1984): Word Grammar Studies in Language 10:2, pp. 507–516 | Review