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Essays on Form and Interpretation.
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This review analyzes Chomsky’s rationale for devising a theory of generative grammar to replace the “standard theory” of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) by one that shifts responsibility for the semantic interpretation of sentences from the forms generated in deep structure to those generated by the entire syntactic apparatus of generative grammar. The shift was very much a work in progress when this review was written, and the outcome it predicted occurred only a few years later with the publication of Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures (1981).
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Metadata
- Authors
- Langendoen, D. T., & Chomsky, N.
- Venue
- The Journal of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Philosophy Documentation Center
- Published
- 1978-05
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 270
- ISSN
- 0022-362X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1969416083
- Cited by
- 523
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 225.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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