In:Chomskyan (R)evolutions
Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee
[Not in series 154] 2010
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Published online: 18 February 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.154.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.154.toc
Table of contents
Foreword and Acknowledgments
Chomsky’s Atavistic Revolution (with a little help from his enemies)
The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar
Chomsky’s paradigm: What it includes and what it excludes
Part I. The young revolutionary (1950–1960)
“Scientific revolutions” and other kinds of regime change
Noam and Zellig
Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b
Grammar and language in Syntactic Structures: Transformational progress and structuralist ‘reflux’
Part II. The cognitive revolution
Chomsky’s other Revolution
Chomsky between revolutions
Part III. Evolutions
What do we talk about, when we talk about ‘universal grammar’, and how have we talked about it?
Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar
Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics: The first ‘superhominid’ and the language faculty
The evolution of meaning and grammar: Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization
Chomsky in search of a pedigree
The “linguistic wars”: A tentative assessment by an outsider witness
Part IV. The Past and Future Directions
British empiricism and Transformational Grammar: A current debate
Historiography’s contribution to theoretical linguistics
Name index
Subject index
Index of cited works
