Pieter A. M. Seuren (1934–2021)

One more look at how vapid and self-interested Chomsky's "Cartesian linguistics" was, this one making the argument that the true Rationalist pedigree belongs ironically to Chomsky's "radical" followers-cum-opponents the generative semanticists, who in arguing that semantics as well as syntax had a generative base were actually connecting up to the tradition, reinforcing that the belief of Chomsky and his followers that language sits on a generative syntactic base and semantics is essentially an overlay on this cognitive miracle has been held by "no one else in the history of the world ever." Chapter appeared in Kibbee, ed., Chomskyan (R)evolutions.… (mer)