Frederick J. Newmeyer is the author of four books on syntactic theory and the history of linguistics. He has recently completed a 5-year term as Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America and is currently Associate Editor of the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. He has taught at the University of Washington, Seattle, since 1969.
"Over the years, the author has become the historian par excellence
of the generative movement in linguistics. . .very informative and
detailed . . . brings together challenging essays on the 'Chomskyan
revolution' and reappraises the debates that have now been going on
for some thirty years. This makes this book particularly valuable
to linguists."
-"The Journal of Indo-European Studies, April 1998
""Generative Linguistics belongs on the shelves of every library
with holdings on generative grammar, and on the desks of everyone
with a serious interest in the history of the field...."
-"LINGUIST, 10/96
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