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Linguistics Lecture 2

Mid- to late-20th C Generative Linguistics: More so perhaps than the titles given to the previous eras, this one involves an oversimplification. Though the generative (formal) approach has been dominant in American linguistics since the mid-20th C (and that is the focus of this lecture) there is also prevalent an alternative (functional) approach; much of linguistic research actually lies on a spectrum spanning these.



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