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Publication details [#3644]

Garvin, Paul L. 1967. The role of function in linguistic theory. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 10 (1) : 287–291.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

functionalism

Person as a subject

Chomsky, N.

Annotation

G. attacks the Chomskyan tradition of deductive grammar and suggests that an adequate theory of language has to be based on the recognition of the importance of function in the interpretation of linguistic phenomena.