Background
Newmeyer, Frederick Jaret was born on January 30, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Alvin S. and Fritzie B. Newmeyer.
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The Politics of Linguistics
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Linguists in the past two centuries have, for the most part, approached language as an autonomous entity; their practice has been to study languages without considering the culture, society, or beliefs of the speakers. "Autonomous linguistics" has been attacked from both the left and the right. Critics on the left (in particular Marxists) argue that the separation of language from its societal context reinforces the status quo by downplaying the role of language as an instrument of ideology and social control. Critics on the right object to the value-free analyses of individual languages required by the autonomous approach and to the idea that all languages merit equal attention. The Politics of Linguistics surveys two centuries of debate over autonomy. The discussion includes the political implications of the birth of the modern field of linguistics in the Romantic movement, the views of Marx and Engels on language, the attack on structural linguistics by both Hitler and Stalin, the role of Christian missionary groups and the military in building the field in the United States, and the relation between Noam Chomsky's linguistic theories and his political views. Frederick J. Newmeyer demonstrates that external political demonstrates that external political currents have often influenced the relative popularity of the autonomous approach to language. He argues that autonomous linguistics, far from being inconsistent with progressive political goals, can be creatively applied to the fulfillment of such goals.
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Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication)
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The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formalist and the functionalist approaches. In this engaging monograph, Frederick J. Newmeyer, a formalist, argues that both approaches are valid. However, because formal and functional linguists have avoided direct confrontation, they remain unaware of the compatability of their results. One of the author's goals is to make each side accessible to the other. While remaining an ardent formalist, Newmeyer stresses the limitations of a narrow formalist outlook that refuses to consider that anything of interest might have been discovered in the course of functionalist-oriented research. He argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide compelling accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.
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Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition)
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Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition) documents the origins and development of the world's principal linguistic theory, transformational generative grammar (Chomskyan linguistics). The book treats all aspects of this development, from the 1950s to the present, with emphasis on two specific topics: the amazingly rapid victory of transformational grammar over the American structuralist tradition from which it arose; and the internal debate between "generative semantics" and "interpretive semantics" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The second edition covers the latest approaches to syntax--the government-biding theory, generalized phrase structure grammar, and lexical-functional grammar.
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Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective (History of Linguistic Thought)
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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology
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In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer seeks to explain the variety of languages. He combines the leading ideas of the functionalist and formalist approaches to linguistic typology, advocating principles of Universal Grammar to explain why some language types are impossible, and functional principles to explain why some grammatical features are more common than others.
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Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilities
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Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for every linguist, philosopher, or psychologist who is skeptical of generative grammar and wants to learn more about it. Newmeyer's formidable scholarship raises the level of debate on transformational generative grammar. He stresses the central importance of an autonomous formal grammar, discusses the limitations of "discourse-based" approaches to syntax, cites support for generativist theory in recent research, and clarifies misunderstood concepts associated with generative grammar.
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Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective (History of Linguistic Thought) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1997-08-10)
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The Politics of Linguistics by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1988-03-15)
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Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1987-01-11)
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Linguistic Theory in America: First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar
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Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (2000-07-31)
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Frederick Jaret Newmeyer
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, U. Rochester, 1965; Master of Arts, U. Rochester, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois, 1969.
Career
Assistant professor linguistics, U. Washington, Seattle, 1969-1975; associate professor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1975-1981; professor, U. Washington, Seattle, since 1981; chair, since 1990. Visiting professor U. London, 1979, Cornell Univercity, 1981, U. Maryland., 1982, University of California at Los Angeles, 1982-1983, La Trobe U., Australia, 1987.
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The Politics of Linguistics
( Linguists in the past two centuries have, for the most ...)
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Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition)
(Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition) documents the ...)
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Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology
(In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer ...)
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Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilities
( Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory ...)
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Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication)
( The two basic approaches to linguistics are the formali...)
- The Politics of Linguistics By ( Author ) Mar-1988 Paperback
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Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective (History of Linguistic Thought)
(First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
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Language Form and Language Function (Language, Speech, and Communication) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (2000-07-31)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- English aspectual verbs (Studies in linguistics and language learning)
- Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective (History of Linguistic Thought) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1997-08-10)
- The Politics of Linguistics by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1988-03-15)
- Linguistic Theory in America (2nd Edition) by Frederick J. Newmeyer (1987-01-11)
- Linguistic Theory in America: First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar
- English aspectual verbs
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The Politics of Linguistics
Membership
Member Linguistic Society American (secretary-treasurer 1989-1994).
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Married Carolyn V. Platt, April 28, 1968 (divorced 1974). Married Marilyn M. Goebel, December 25, 1993.
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