American linguistics - from whitney to greenberg

• Date de parution : 25/05/2022
• Editeur : Books On Demand
• EAN : 9782322425280
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• Support : Papier

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• Genre : Lettres et linguistique
• Thème : Lettres et linguistique
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THE BOOK Usually, American Linguistics is linked to the name of Noam Chomsky, ever since the publication of his book Syntactic Structures (1957). In fact, one can trace the evolution of this rich discipline from its birth, with Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar (1879). Besides Chomsky, it is worth... Voir plus

THE BOOK Usually, American Linguistics is linked to the name of Noam Chomsky, ever since the publication of his book Syntactic Structures (1957). In fact, one can trace the evolution of this rich discipline from its birth, with Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar (1879). Besides Chomsky, it is worth mentioning other less famous, but no less important American linguists and philosophers, such as Bloomfield, Sapir, Whorf, and more recently Labov, Pike, Montague, and Greenberg.