Linguistics 490--Deep Structure
& Generative
Semantics
Home-Brewed
Dissension
• “As of 1965, and even later, we find in the bowels of Building 20 [the home of
the MIT linguistics department] a group of dedicated co-conspirators, united by missionary zeal
and shared purpose. A year or two later, the garment
is unraveling, and by the end of the decade the mood is total warfare. The field was always closed off
against the outside: no serpent was introduced from outside of Eden to seduce or corrupt. Any dissension had to be home-brewed” (Robin Lakoff, LW 102).