Chomskian linguistics

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:52 PM +0100 9/9/10, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>
>>Has Chomskian linguistics gone out of favor?  Why?  And in favor of what?
>>
>>Joel
>
>Well, there's M.A.K.Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics, but that may
>only run in Australia.

pretty much, or at least not in the U.S.

>
>(Is Minimalist Linguistics still considered to be Chomsky2 or Chomsky3?)

It's considered to be Chomsky, and hence (by definition, in most
influential quarters here) the Right Way.  A hundred flowers bloom
and a hundred schools of thought contend, but they're not equally
fertilized.

LH

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