Linguistics and Pseudo-Linguistics
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 55] 1987. vii, 147 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 10 October 2011
Published online on 10 October 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface and acknowledgements | p. ix
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Fact and fiction in grammatical analysis | p. 1
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Some recent studies on Port-Royal and Vaugelas | p. 9
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Review of Saltarelli, A phonology of Italian in a generative grammar | p. 32
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“Underlying representation” and observable fact in phonology | p. 37
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Review of Hockett, State of the Art | p. 58
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Some critiques of Chomskyan theory | p. 80
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Review of Hagège, La grammaire générative | p. 89
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Can linguistics be a science ? | p. 94
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Review of Sampson, Liberty and language, and of Matthews, Generative grammar and linguistic competence | p. 98
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Review of Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America | p. 103
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Review of Fietz, Funktionaler Strukturalismus | p. 113
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Deconstructing Derrida on language | p. 116
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Index of names and topics | p. 139
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General