1 The structuralist ascendancy in American linguistics -- 2 American structuralism and European structuralism -- 3 Martin Joos's Readings in Linguistics as the apogee of American structuralism -- 4 Early transformational generative grammar -- 5 The diffusion of generativist ideas -- 6 The European reception of early transformational generative grammar -- 7 The contested LSA presidential election of 1970 -- 8 Charles Hockett's attempt to resign from the LSA in 1982 -- 9 The generativist non-dominance of the field in the 1970s and 1980s
Summary
This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s. It offers detailed discussions of the key issues and developments in the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early generative grammar
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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