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This is probably the sharpest consideration of Chomskyan linguistics yet to appear. Ian Robinson argues that it is important to recognise Chomsky's positive achievement as a definition of the domain of traditional syntax in the context of an adherence to traditional grammar. But this strictly limited achievement offers no basis for many of the claims made for linguistics. Chomsky's views of language as a whole are narrow and conceptually confused; his psychology is based on the predication of un

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Author
Ian Robinson
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
Published
1975
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521208567
Category
language
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics
Updated
2026-03-25

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