Linguistics wars

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title: Linguistics wars
text: The linguistics wars were extended disputes among American theoretical linguists that occurred mostly during the 1960s and 1970s, stemming from a disagreement between Noam Chomsky and several of his associates and students. The debates started in 1967 when linguists Paul Postal, John R. Ross, George Lakoff, and James D. McCawley —self-dubbed the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"—proposed an alternative approach in which the relation between semantics and syntax is viewed differently, which treat
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description: 20th-century dispute among American linguists
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date created: 2007-07-25T10:52:09Z
date modified: 2024-08-14T19:54:32Z
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