Linguistics wars
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| - | {{Template}} | + | {{Template}}'''Linguistic Wars''' is a colloquial term for a protracted academic dispute in American [[generative linguistics]] which took place mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. |
| - | From the 1950s, American linguistic tradition began to diverge from the [[Ferdinand de Saussure|de Saussurian]] [[structuralism]] taught in European academia, notably with [[Noam Chomsky]]'s "[[Psychological nativism|nativist]]" [[transformational grammar]] and successor theories, which during the 1970s "[[Linguistics Wars]]" and the hey-day of [[postmodernism]] gave rise to a bewildering variety of competing [[grammar framework]]s. | + | |
| + | It was a falling out between [[Noam Chomsky]] and some of his early students, who, after studying under Chomsky, created the research program of [[generative semantics]], which stands largely in opposition to Chomsky's previous work. | ||
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| + | ''The Linguistics Wars'' is also the title of a 1995 book by Randy Allen Harris on the topic (ISBN 9780195098341). | ||
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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[George Lakoff]] | ||
| + | *[[James D. McCawley]] | ||
| + | *[[Paul Postal]] | ||
| + | *[[John R. Ross]] | ||
| + | *[[Ray C. Dougherty]] | ||
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It was a falling out between Noam Chomsky and some of his early students, who, after studying under Chomsky, created the research program of generative semantics, which stands largely in opposition to Chomsky's previous work.
The Linguistics Wars is also the title of a 1995 book by Randy Allen Harris on the topic (ISBN 9780195098341).
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