Christopher Beedham

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher Beedham plays a role.

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Subjects Balto-Slavic linguistics | Functional linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Beedham, Christopher 2010 The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammarChomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 19–42 | Article
Generative grammar is a misguided approach which makes two interrelated errors. Firstly, the generativists seem to believe that you can do science by assumption or postulation alone; the assumptions are never tested, because that is not the point. Secondly, the generativists seem to believe that… read more