The New Grammarians' Funeral: A Critique of Noam Chomsky's Linguistics

by Ian Robinson and Ian Robinson

Book Overview

This is probably the sharpest consideration of Chomskyan linguistics yet to appear. Ian Robinson argues that it is important to recognise Chomsky's positive achievement as a definition of the domain of traditional syntax in the context of an adherence to traditional grammar. But this strictly limited achievement offers no basis for many of the claims made for linguistics. Chomsky's views of language as a whole are narrow and conceptually confused;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521293162
• ISBN13: 9780521293167
• Release Date: May 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"