Ideology and Linguistic Theory

Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates

By John A. Goldsmith, Geoffrey J. Huck

Published October 31st 1996 by Routledge – 200 pages

Series: History of Linguistic Thought

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In Ideology and Linguistic Theory Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.

'Insightful … valuable.' - Language