01196nam a2200253Ia 4500 TVU_10255 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0521458471 9780521458474 eng 410.973 M438 P.H. Matthews Grammatical theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky P.H. Matthews Cambridge,New York Cambridge University Press 1993 xiii, 272 p. 24 cm This is a history of the spread and dominance of North American linguistic theory, concentrating on the influential ideas of Bloomfield and Chomsky. It gives an account of the development and continuity of three dominant ideas in linguistics: the study of formal relations can and should be separated from that of meaning; sentences are composed of linear configurations of morphemes; many aspects of grammar are determined genetically. This is an invaluable survey for all linguists wishing to trace the origins of their discipline Linguistics P.H. Matthews Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh