Background
Hockett, Charles Francis was born on January 17, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Homer Carey and Amy (Francisco) Hockett.
(This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common...)
This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common in twentieth-century linguistics. The most pervasive of these is our habit of looking at language from the point of view of the speaker. When we take, instead, that of the hearer, matters fall into place in a new way. In syntax, we are led to examine the evidence available to hearers for interpreting what they hear, and this reveals both the true nature and the locus existendi of “deep structure”. Chomsky's 1957 diagnosis of the then prevalent syntactic theory is upheld, though his proposed remedy is not. The principle of Gestalt perception yields a characterization of the word quite different from Bloomfield's classic definition, lending support of new kind to Pike's mid-century views of the relation between phonemics and grammar. In morphology, assuming the hearer's standpoint forces the abondonment of the “atomic morpheme” that has prevailed in America since the post-Bloomfieldians, together with much of classical morphophonemics, and by a domino effect this in turn undermines much of generative phonology.
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Hockett, Charles Francis was born on January 17, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Son of Homer Carey and Amy (Francisco) Hockett.
Bachelor, Master of Arts in Ancient History, Ohio State University, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Yale University, 1939.
Member of faculty, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1946; professor linguistics and anthropology, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1957; Goldwin Smith professor linguistics and anthropology, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1970-1982; professor emeritus, since 1982. Adjunct Professor linguistics Rice U., Houston, since 1991.
(This essay challenges several patterns of thinking common...)
(Course In Modern Linguistics, A, by Hockett, Charles F.)
Member National Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Society of America (president 1964), Linguistic Society of Canada and United States (president 1982), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Shirley Orlinoff, April 25, 1942. Children: Alpha, Asher Orlinoff, Amy Roberta, Rachel, Carey Beth.