Grammatical Theory in the United States : From Bloomfield to Chomsky

by P. H. Matthews

• ISBN13: 9780521433518
• ISBN10: 0521433517
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This is a history of the spread and dominance of North American linguistic theory, concentrating on the influential ideas of Bloomfield and Chomsky. It gives an account of the development and continuity of three dominant ideas in linguistics: the study of formal relations can and should be separated from that of meaning; sentences are composed of linear configurations of morphemes; many aspects of grammar are determined genetically. This is an invaluable survey for all linguists wishing to trace the origins of their discipline.

Table of Contents

Preface

Note on the text

Abbreviations

Introduction

Bloomfield's morphology and its successors

Distributional syntax

Chomsky's philosophy of grammar

References

Index

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