Christopher Beedham

List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher Beedham is involved.

Title

Language and Meaning: The structural creation of reality

Christopher Beedham

This book illustrates the structuralist idea that language creates the reality we perceive. The data presented in this volume focus on the problematic issues of the passive construction and irregular (strong) verbs, with examples taken primarily from English with separate subsections on German and… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 55] 2005. xiv, 225 pp.

Articles

Beedham, Christopher 2010 The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 19–42 | Article

Generative grammar is a misguided approach which makes two interrelated errors. Firstly, the generativists seem to believe that you can do science by assumption or postulation alone; the assumptions are never tested, because that is not the point. Secondly, the generativists seem to believe that… read more

Beedham, Christopher 1998 Review of Bittner (1996): Starke ‘schwache’ Verben – schwache ‘starke’ Verben: deutsche Verbflexion und Natürlichkeit Studies in Language 22:1, pp. 212–218 | Review