Linguistics and pseudo-linguistics : selected essays, 1965-1985 / Robert A. Hall, Jr.

The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform ha...

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Main Author: Hall, Robert A. (Robert Anderson), 1911-1997
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 55.
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Summary:The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform have been rare. In this book, the criticism offered by Professor Hall over more than twenty years have been brought together. They cover the range of linguistic structure (phonology, morphosyntax, and semantics), general theory, and the history of linguistics. In these essays, the many short-comings of.
Physical Description:1 online resource (147 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-138) and index.
ISBN:9789027279057
9027279055
128331388X
9781283313889
9786613313881
6613313882
ISSN:0304-0763 ;
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.