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Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar1

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TomalinMarcus, Linguistics and the formal sciences: The origins of generative grammar (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 110). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+233.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2007

BARBARA C. SCHOLZ  and
GEOFFREY K. PULLUM
BARBARA C. SCHOLZ*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
GEOFFREY K. PULLUM*
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
*
Authors' address: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland, U.K. E-mail: [email protected][email protected]
Authors' address: School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland, U.K. E-mail: [email protected][email protected]
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 701 - 723
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