The linguistics wars Chomsky, Lakoff, and the battle over deep structure Harris, Randy Allen creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History nyu 2021 Second edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xvi, 547 pages) : illustrations "This book chronicles the history of linguistics from the 1950s rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar, in alliance with cognitive psychology and Artificial Intelligence, to the current day. It centers on a highly consequential dispute at a key moment of that rise, the relative importance of structure and meaning. The dispute marks a rupture between what looked to be an approaching Chomskyan hegemony in theory and a flowering of alternate approaches that complement but do not replace his approach, as well as some that advance it in various ways. The rupture was between the theory of Generative Semantics, pushing to include more and more meaning into linguistic theory, and Interpretive Semantics, which resisted that push, putting more and more focus on linguistic structure. But in many ways the dispute can be reduced to George Lakoff, the most prominent voice on the more-meaning side, and Noam Chomsky on the more-structure side. Chomsky is a big personality, quiet and understated but always gesturing at monumental and revolutionary implications for his ideas, never failing to mobilize great numbers of linguists, often with large contingents of psychologists, philosophers, computer scientists, or biologists sharing the enthusiasm as well. Lakoff is also big personality, anything but quiet or understated, equally comfortable gesturing at grand revolutions. So, personalities are central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the theories, the data, and the technical developments, with other social currents playing various additional roles, from military and educational funding to the counter-culture movement of the 1960s to the growth of computational technologies, and all of these factors show up in the chronicle, along with a cast of other remarkable and influential characters. Noam Chomsky is unquestionably the most influential linguist of the twentieth century-many people claim of any century-whose work and personal imprint remains powerfully relevant today, so the book ends by an analysis of Chomsky's influence and legacy"-- Language, thought, and the linguistics wars -- The beauty of deep structure -- Generative semantics 1 : the model -- General semantics 2 : the heresy -- The vicissitudes of war -- Generative semantics 3 : the ethos -- Generative semantics 4 : the collapse -- Twentieth century linguistics at closing time -- The aftermath : twenty-first century linguistics -- Chomsky agonistes. Randy Allen Harris. Includes bibliographical references and index. Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, Noam Linguistics History 20th century Generative grammar Linguistique Histoire 20e siècle Grammaire générative Generative grammar Linguistics 1900-1999 fast P85.C47 H34 2021eb 410.9/045 Linguistics wars Harris, Randy Allen. New York : Oxford University Press, 2021 (DLC) 2021004591 (OCoLC)1238128299 (DLC) 2021004591 (DLC) 2021004591 (OCoLC)1238128299 9780197608654 0197608655 9780199740338 019974033X 9780197608661 0197608663 9780197608647 0197608647 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/39137 N$T 211110 20260318163534.9 in00005696390 eng