Chomskian linguistics

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/8/2010 11:38 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
>Maybe, but to my mind the phrase implies an aesthetic peripety rather
>than a
>commercial downturn -- the claim that "Chomskian linguistics jumped the
>shark with the appearance of Lectures on Government and Binding" isn't
>falsified by pointing out that it was picked up for a number of
>seasons after that.

Has Chomskian linguistics gone out of favor?  Why?  And in favor of what?

Joel

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