Víctor M. Longa
List of John Benjamins publications for which Víctor M. Longa plays a role.
2021 On evolution, change, and beyond: Some comments on Hubert Haider’s paper “Grammar change: A case of Darwinian cognitive evolution” Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change, Manzini, Maria Rita (ed.), pp. 56–72 | Commentary
This paper discusses Hubert Haider’s target-article “Grammar change: A case of Darwinian cognitive evolution”. I show why such an article is fascinating (and unconventional), although I will mainly concentrate on several disagreements with Haider and will suggest alternative views to those… read more
2018 That Was Not ‘Lenneberg’s Dream’ Historiographia Linguistica 45:1/2, pp. 179–210 | Article
Eric Heinz Lenneberg (1921–1975), a neuroscientist and linguist born in Düsseldorf, published his masterpiece Biological Foundations of Language in 1967. This book, now recognized as a classic in the field, inaugurated the scientific study of the biology of language, and has since its… read more
2004 A nonlinear approach to translation Target 16:2, pp. 201–226 | Article
The main concern of this article is to approach translation from the view of nonlinear dynamics. Thus, it makes use of theories related to such a type of dynamics (chaos theory and complexity science). This concern develops on two levels: firstly, the article argues that the abandonment of the… read more
2001 The abandonment of extrinsic rule ordering in generative grammar Historiographia Linguistica 28:1/2, pp. 187–198 | Article
Extrinsic rule ordering was a device used within the Standard Theory of Generative Grammar which determined the correct order for transformations to apply. During the 1970s some linguists, led by Andreas Koutsoudas, showed how this device could be eliminated. However, the great importance of… read more