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Two Notions of ‘Research Program’ and the Historiography of Generative Linguistics Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, concepts, methods, and aims. By Cedric Boeckx.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. .x+246 pp. . ISBN 019929758413 9780199297580 $44.99
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Chomskyan Linguistics and its Competitors. By Pius ten Hacken.
London & Oakville: Equinox, 2007. .366 pp. ISBN 10184553054313 9781845530549 £55.00 $85.00

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