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Frederick J. Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America: The first quarter-century of transformational generative grammar. New York: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. xiii + 290.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

John Fought
John Fought
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Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Language in Society , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , August 1982 , pp. 317 - 321
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