CHAT: Lakoff

I was really into (trying to comprehend) Chomskyan linguistics for a
couple years, until I started reading people like Lakoff and became
debunked of it all.

'Course, Lakoff's current theories of grammar (e.g. the analysis of
_There is_ in Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things) bear almost as little
resemblance to his old Generative Semantics as to Chomsky.


Ed Heil -------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net

John Cowan wrote:

> Sally Caves scripsit:
>
> > It wasn't from any sense that he was a bad linguist.
>
> Lakoff is also one of the bad boys of the generative-semantics
> wars of the 70s, so the Chomskyite religionists will denounce him
> at the drop of a pro.
>
> (Not that any of us would suffer from prejudice.)
>
> --
> John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
>                 e'osai ko sarji la lojban.
>