American Linguistics in Transition by Frederick J. Newmeyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses primarily on the transition from (post-Bloomfieldian) structural linguistics to early generative grammar. The first three chapters in the bookdiscuss the rise of structuralism in the 1930s; the interplay between American and European structuralism; and the publication of Joos's Readings in Linguistics in 1957. Later chapters explore the beginnings of generative grammar and the reaction to it from structural linguists; how generativistsmade their ideas more widely known; the response to generativism in Europe; and the resistance to the new theory by leading structuralists, which continued into the 1980s. The final chapter demonstrates that contrary to what has often been claimed, generative grammarians were not in factorganizationally dominant in the field in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. | American Linguistics in Transition by Frederick J. Newmeyer, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters