Chomskian linguistics and human uniqueness

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Robin Hamilton
<robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> Wilson, what did you think of Halliday? Â That you kept the souvenir booklet
> suggests you were impressed.
>

I was star-struck!

As for semantics, the Lakoffian theory of generative semantics was a
major threat to the orthodox Chomskyism of that day. Chomsky was
forced to make "an agonizing reappraisal," to coin a phrase.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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