Chomsky's minimalism /
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| Author / Creator: | Seuren, Pieter A. M. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138575 |
| Summary: | Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Minimalism has spawned in linguistics an entire research program, despite being fundamentally misguided, according to distinguished linguist and philosopher of language Pieter Seuren. Seuren's accessible and spirited attack argues that the Minimalist Program is deeply flawed. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the 1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder and unfairly suppressed. Seuren maintains that this suppression, and the cult surrounding Chomsky and Minimalism more generally, has done great damage to linguistics by impairing open discussion of empirical issues and excluding valid alternatives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423726413 9781423726418 1602565031 9781602565036 9780195173062 0195173066 9780195173055 0195173058 128065550X 9781280655500 019534667X 9780195346671 |