The Linguistics Wars

by Randy Allen Harris

Book Overview

When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching it to a new brand of psychology. Rapidly, all of Chomsky's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509834X
• ISBN13: 9780195098341
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"