Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
Frederick J. Newmeyer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Frederick J. Newmeyer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology | Syntax
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology | Syntax
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: 2 Volumes (set)
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41-42] 1999. vi, 486 pp. & vi, 407 pp.
Subjects Functional linguistics | Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Phonology | Syntax
2024 Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 211–219 | Chapter
The first part of this paper describes the content of several archives containing letters, documents, etc. which have relevance to the history of American linguistics, particularly from the 1940s to the 1980s. The second part shows how material from these archives has already helped to solve… read more
2020 Crisis in the Linguistic Society of America: The contested presidential election of 1970 Historiographia Linguistica 47:1, pp. 79–104 | Article
This article discusses and analyses the 1970 election for President of the Linguistic Society of America. In that year, Dwight Bolinger challenged the official candidate Martin Joos and defeated him easily. We see that it was mainly personal and generational factors, rather than intellectual… read more
2019 The Historiography of Generative Linguistics. By András Kertész Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 182–191 | Review
2019 Martin Joos’s Readings in Linguistics: A publication history Historiographia Linguistica 46:3, pp. 73–130 | Article
The book Readings in Linguistics edited by Martin Joos is one of the best known collections of papers ever published in the field of linguistics. In this article I trace its publication history, from Bernard Bloch’s idea in 1946 for an anthology of important work in descriptive linguists, to the… read more
2015 American Linguists Look at Swiss Linguistics, 1925–1940 Historiographia Linguistica 42:1, pp. 107–118 | Article
Swiss linguistic research did not have a major impact on American linguistics in the inter-war period. Nevertheless, there was a perhaps surprising awareness of the results of Swiss scholars among American linguists active in that period. This paper documents both their numerous references to the… read more
2014 Syntactic change: Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar The Sociolinguistics of Grammar, Åfarli, Tor A. and Brit Mæhlum (eds.), pp. 37–66 | Article
Two diametrically opposed positions on syntactic change have wide currency in the literature. The first is the classical position of mainstream formal linguistics. In this view, UG-based strategies lead to a dramatically rapid cascade of seemingly unrelated diachronic changes. The second view has… read more
2012 ‘All Languages Are Equally Complex’: The rise and fall of a consensus Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 341–368 | Article
Throughout most of the history of the discipline, linguists have had little hesitation in comparing languages in terms of their relative complexity, whether or not they extrapolated judgements of superiority or inferiority from such comparisons. By the mid 20th century, however, a consensus had… read more
2012 Review of Heine & Narrog (): The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis Studies in Language 36:1, pp. 215–224 | Review
2011 English derived nominals in three frameworks Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 213–228 | Article
This paper contrasts the analysis of English derived nominals (i. e., words such as refusal, height, goodness, movement, etc.) in minimalism, automodular grammar, and classical transformational grammar. It argues that minimalism does the poorest job of the three in handling their distinctive… read more
2009 4. Current challenges to the Lexicalist Hypothesis: An overview and a critique Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), pp. 91–117 | Article
In this chapter, arguments against several variants of the modern syntax-based analyses of deverbal nominalizations are presented, and the classic lexicalist approach deriving from Chomsky’s 1970 Remarks on nominalization is defended. The modern approaches of Alexiadou (2001), Fu, Roeper and Borer… read more
2007 ‘More complicated and hence, rarer’: A look at grammatical complexity and cross-linguistic rarity Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 221–242 | Article
Emonds (1980) conjectured that in one limited domain there is a robust correlation between the complexity of a syntactic derivation and the rarity of the sentence type produced by that derivation. Other scholars, however, have hypothesized a more general correlation complexity and rarity which is… read more
2007 Typological evidence and Universal Grammar What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 51–73 | Article
The paper discusses the relevance of typological evidence for the construction of a theory of Universal Grammar (UG). After introducing UG-based approaches to typology, it goes on to argue that most typological generalizations are in no sense ‘knowledge of language’. In fact, some of the… read more
2006 Negation and modularity Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward (eds.), pp. 241–261 | Article
2004 Typological evidence and Universal Grammar What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 527–548 | Article
The paper discusses the relevance of typological evidence for the construction of a theory of Universal Grammar (UG). After introducing UG-based approaches to typology, it goes on to argue that most typological generalizations are in no sense ‘knowledge of language’. In fact, some of the… read more
2004 Against a parameter-setting approach to typological variation Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2004, Pica, Pierre (ed.), pp. 181–234 | Article
The dominant position among generative grammarians with respect to typological variation is that it should be captured by parameters, which are either directly tied to principles of Universal Grammar (UG) or to functional projections provided by UG. Parameter-setting approaches, however, have… read more
2001 200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey. By Giorgio Graffi Historiographia Linguistica 28:3, pp. 435–442 | Review
1999 Some Remarks on the Functionalist-Formalist Controversy in Linguistics Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 469–486 | Article
1997 2 The Language Muddle: Roy Harris and Generative Grammar Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics, Wolf, George and Nigel Love (eds.), pp. 42–64 | Article
1995 Linguistic Diversity and Universal Grammar: 40 years of Dynamic Tension within Generative Grammar History of Linguistics 1993: Papers from the Sixth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS VI), Washington DC, 9–14 August 1993, Jankowsky, Kurt R. (ed.), pp. 327–348 | Article
1990 Competence vs. performance; theoretical vs. applied: The development and interplay of two dichotomies in modern linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 17:1/2, pp. 167–181 | Article
The past 30 years have seen marked shifts in the generative grammarians’ view of the nature of linguistic competence. The rule-oriented period of early Transformational Grammar, which was ushered in by the publication of Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures in 1957, gave way a decade later to the… read more
1990 Competence vs. Performance; Theoretical vs. Applied: The development and interplay of two dichotomies in modern linguistics North American Contributions to the History of Linguistics, Dinneen, S.J., Francis P. and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 167–182 | Article
1982 Reply to Murray’s Review Historiographia Linguistica 9:1/2, pp. 185–186 | Miscellaneous