The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric
The Grammatical Foundations of Rhetoric

Author: Bennison Gray

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 3110804840

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To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

American Linguistics in Transition
American Linguistics in Transition

Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-06-16

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0192657453

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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.

Generative Linguistics
Generative Linguistics

Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 113482050X

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Linguistics and Pseudo-linguistics
Linguistics and Pseudo-linguistics

Author: Robert Anderson Hall

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 902723549X

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The doctrines of transformational-generative grammar (as promulgated in 1957, with frequent later emendations) have on occasion been criticised, sometimes severely. Such criticism have, however, appeared mostly in article-form, and mostly in relatively inaccessible places. Discussions in bookform have been rare.In this book, the criticism offered by Professor Hall over more than twenty years have been brought together. They cover the range of linguistic structure (phonology, morphosyntax, and semantics), general theory, and the history of linguistics. In these essays, the many short-comings of transformational-generative grammar are revealed by critical examination, with inevitably negative conclusions. The two final essays of the book deal with parallel aberrations in current literary theory, especially Derridian “radical skepticism concerning language” and “deconstruction”, as viewed from a linguistic stand-point.