Review article
Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar
. Linguistics and the Formal Sciences: The Origins of Generative Grammar [
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 110]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20062008. paperback edition.xii, 233 pp. ISBN 0-52106648-4 / 978-0-52106648-8Approx 24,99 48,00
Pieter Seuren | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Published online: 06 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.05seu
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.05seu
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