The Linguistics Wars Paperback
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Randy Allen Harris
Book Description
This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.
ISBN-13
9780195098341
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date
09-03-1995
Number of Pages
368
About the Author
Randy Allen Harris is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo.
Editorial Review
Beautifully written, packed with information and perceptive observations, and very well argued. * James McCawley, University of Chicago *