Chomsky’s Minimalism

Copyright 2004 Oxford University Press; ISBN 0-19-517306-6 paperback; LC 2003017662. SEUREN’S SECOND APPEARANCE ON THIS SHELF, thirty years after he edited Semantic Syntax — and the preface says so outright: “This book has a history that goes back to about 1970, when I began to feel dissatisfied with the direction taken by Chomsky and his followers toward what was called ‘autonomous syntax’ … away from ‘generative semantics’, the form of grammar I favored.” The losing side of the linguistics wars returning to the argument three decades later. Cover picture: Albert Carel Willink’s “Landscape with mountain chapel” (1924).