Book review
The Historiography of Generative Linguistics.. By András Kertész.
Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2017. 208 pp. ISBN 978-3-8233-8156-3 €58,00

Reviewed by Frederick J. Newmeyer
University of Washington | University of British Columbia | Simon Fraser University
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András Kertész (K) in an early page of his book The Historiography of Generative Linguistics (henceforth: HGL) complains that “Most [historiographical approaches to generative linguistics] are spectacularly biased” (p. 10; emphasis in the original). To counter this perceived state of affairs,

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