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Author Hall, Robert A. (Robert Anderson), 1911-1997.

Title Linguistics and pseudo-linguistics : selected essays, 1965-1985 / Robert A. Hall, Jr
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987

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Description 1 online resource (147 pages)
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 55
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 55. 0304-0763
Contents LINGUISTICS AND PSEUDO-LINGUISTICS SELECTED ESSAYS1965-1985; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FACT AND FICTION IN GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS; I. SOME FICTIONS; II. USEFULNESS OF FICTIONS; III. DANGERS OF FICTIONS; IV. OTHER DANGERS; V. CONCLUSION; NOTES; SOME RECENT STUDIES ON PORT-ROYAL AND VAUGELAS; NOTES; REVIEW OF SALTARELLI, A PHONOLOGY OF ITALIAN; ""UNDERLYING REPRESENTATION"" AND OBSERVABLE FACT IN PHONOLOGY; NOTES; REVIEW OF HOCKETT, THE STATE OF THE ART; NOTES; SOME CRITIQUES OF CHOMSKYAN THEORY
REVIEW OF HAGÈGE, LA GRAMMAIRE GÉNÉRATIVEA few scattered comments:; CAN LINGUISTICS BE A SCIENCE?; REVIEW OF SAMPSON, LIBERTY AND LANGUAGE AND OF MATTHEWS, GENERATIVE GRAMMAR AND LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE; NOTES; REVIEW OF NEWMEYER, LINGUISTIC THEORY IN AMERICA; NOTES; REVIEW OF FIETZ, FUNKTIONALER STRUKTURALISMUS; DECONSTRUCTING DERRIDA ON LANGUAGE; NOTES; REFERENCES; 1. ABBREVIATIONS; 2. AUTHOR, DATE, AND TITLE LISTINGS; INDEX OF NAMES AND TOPICS
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-138) and index
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Subject Generative grammar.
Deconstruction.
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Deconstructivist.
deconstruction (theory)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Deconstruction
Generative grammar
Linguistik
Aufsatzsammlung
Dekonstruktion
Kritik
Generative Transformationsgrammatik
Taalwetenschap.
Theorieën.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027279057
9027279055
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9781283313889
9786613313881
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