The new grammarians' funeral : a critique of Noam Chomsky's linguistics / Ian Robinson.

By: Robinson, Ian, 1944-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1975Description: xiv, 189 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0521208564; 9780521208567Subject(s): Chomsky, Noam | Grammar, Comparative and general | LinguisticsDDC classification: 410/.92/4 LOC classification: P85.C47 | R6Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'The science of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits of transformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, or the strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguistic universals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyan semantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: making propositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning; (iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics and philosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics and everything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.
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"Works by Chomsky": p. xiii-xiv.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface; Preface to the 1978 impression; Works by Chomsky; 1. 'The science of language'; 2. Chomsky's grammar to the rescue; 3. The limits of transformational-generative grammar; 4. Chomsky's temptations and falls, or the strange tale of (i) The acquisition device; (ii) Code; (iii) Linguistic universals; 5. The wild goose chase of meaning out of language: Chomskyan semantics I: universal concepts; 6. Chomskyan semantics II: making propositions (i) Sense and logic; (ii) Reference; (iii) Absolute meaning; (iv) The super-language; Note: Chomsky's mistakes; 7. Linguistics and philosophy: Chomsky's failure with Wittgenstein; 8. Linguistics and everything else; 9. 'The science of language' revisited; Index.

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