Ideology and Linguistic Theory

In Ideology and Linguistic Theory, two students of principals on both sides of the argument - Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith - reappraise the outcome of the Deep Structure Debate.

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In Ideology and Linguistic Theory Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.