34.432, Books: American Linguistics in Transition: Newmeyer

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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 23:35:01
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: American Linguistics in Transition: Newmeyer

 


Title: American Linguistics in Transition 
Subtitle: From Post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism to Generative Grammar 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/american-linguistics-in-transition-9780192843760?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Frederick J Newmeyer

Hardback: ISBN:  9780192843760 Pages: 432 Price: ----  115


Abstract:

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, and focuses primarily
on the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early
generative grammar. The first three chapters in the book discuss the rise of
structuralism in the 1930s; the interplay between American and European
structuralism; and the publication of Joos's Readings in Linguistics in 1957.
Later chapters explore the beginnings of generative grammar and the reaction
to it from structural linguists; how generativists made their ideas more
widely known; the response to generativism in Europe; and the resistance to
the new theory by leading structuralists, which continued into the 1980s. The
final chapter demonstrates that contrary to what has often been claimed,
generative grammarians were not in fact organizationally dominant in the field
in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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