• Jakobsen
dealt with grammatical categories, but emphasized the need to retain
meaning (semantics) in the system. This
was a very anti-Formalist approach to language (i.e.
anti-Chomskyan), which eventually turned the Formalists against
him. In fact at an LSA
meeting after WWII, Robert Hall (Cornell) passed around a
$20 bill and had everyone sign it who agreed to
blackball Jakobsen.