Where did generative grammar come from, anyway? Rethinking the origins of generative grammar
This is a lecture that will be presented to the Brazilian Linguistics Association on July 9, 2020. It discusses the relationship between the model of generative grammar described in Chomsky's Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory and earlier work in philosophy and mathematics. Some of the material presented here is discussed in Battle in the Mind Fields (Goldsmith and Laks 2019, University of Chicago Press).
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