Autor: Joseph John E. Joseph

What is ‘American’ about American linguistics? Is Jakobson, who spent half his life in America, part of it? What became of Whitney’s genuinely American conception of language as a democracy? And how …

This volume presents nine of today’s grammatical theories with a view to comparing their starting points and their methods. The particular features and properties of each theory are discussed in this …

The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his …

Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and …

Although it is widely thought that structural linguistics began abruptly with the publication of Saussure’s ‘revolutionary’ Course in General Linguistics, the work of E. F. K. Koerner has …