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.

General Linguistics and the Teaching of Dead Hamito-Semitic Languages
General Linguistics and the Teaching of Dead Hamito-Semitic Languages

Author: J.H. Hospers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 9004348212

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Preliminary Material -- APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE TEACHING OF DEAD LANGUAGES /J. H. Hospers -- DER UNTERRICHT DES AKKADISCHEN FÜR STUDENTEN DER VORDERASIATISCHEN ARCHÄOLOGIE -- THE TEACHING OF CLASSICAL HEBREW: Options and Priorities /John F. A. Sawyer -- DIDAKTISCHE PROBLEME DES AKADEMISCHEN UNTERRICHTS IM KLASSISCHEN ARABISCH /S. Wild -- EXPERIMENTS IN APPLYING LANGUAGE LABORATORY TECHNIQUES TO TEACHING CLASSICAL HEBREW /A. D. Crown -- HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION AND THE TEACHING OF DEAD LANGUAGES /H. J. W. Drijvers -- THE ROLE OF DIACHRONICS IN THE TEACHING OF OLD TESTAMENT HEBREW /J. H. Hospers -- EPILOGUE /J. H. Hospers.

Generative Linguistics
Generative Linguistics

Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1134820518

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Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskian Revolution' - the implications of which are still being debated some three decades on. Here together for the first time are all of Frederick J. Newmeyer's writings on the origins and development of generative grammar. Spanning a period of fifteen years the essays address the nature of the 'Chomskian Revolution', the deep structure debates of the 1970s, and the attempts to apply generative theory to second language acquisition.

Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics
Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics

Author: Jan Mulder

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 3110872013

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Syntax
Syntax

Author: P. H. Matthews

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-07-30

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780521297097

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This textbook introduces the basic concepts of syntax. The approach is thematic, dealing with the nature of syntactic relations and the main types of construction (predication, attribution, coordination etc.). Professor Matthews draws attention to the weakness of much current syntactic theory and considers the problem of indeterminacy, which theorists have been unable to treat in any systematic way.