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Review of: Linguistics and the formal sciences: The origins of generative grammar, by Marcus Tomalin

Statement of Responsibility:
Iwanov, Iwo
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Authors:
Iwanov, Iwo
Series:
SIL Electronic Book Reviews
Date:
2011
Publisher:
SIL International
Part Of Series:
SIL Electronic Book Reviews 2011-003
Extent:
1 page
Publication Status:
Published
Content Language:
English [eng]
Field:
Linguistics
Work Type:
Book review
Keyword:
Categorial Grammar
competing grammars
computability theory
constructional systems
constructional system theory
constructive nominalism
contemporary generative grammar
Copenhagen Circle
extralogical primitives
foundations crisis
general recursive functions
grammatical simplicity
Hilbertian Formalism
Junior Fellowship
Leonard Bloomfield
linguistic historiographers
logical epistemology
logical syntax
natural language analysis
Nelson Goodman
Noam Chomsky
phrase structure component
primitive recursive functions
Principia Mathematica
recursive function theory
simplicity criteria
simplicity measure
syntactic research
syntactic theory
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
The Structure of Appearance
Transformational Generative Grammar
Vienna Circle
Zellig Harris
Nature of Work:
Text
Entry Number:
48846
Files:
SILEBR_2011_003.pdf

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