Refurbishing our foundations : elementary linguistics from an advanced point of view /

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Author / Creator:Hockett, Charles Francis.
Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 181 pages)
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 56
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 56.
Subject:Linguistics.
Linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Linguistics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11119744
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ISBN:9789027279040
9027279047
9027235503
9789027235503
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-171) and index.
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Summary:This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led to examine the evidence available to hearers for interpreting what they hear, and this reveals both the true nature and the locus existendi of "deep structure". Chomsky's 1957 diagnosis of the then prevalent syntactic theory is upheld, though his proposed remedy is not. The principle of Gestalt percep.
Other form:Print version: Hockett, Charles Francis. Refurbishing our foundations. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987 9027235503