Linguistics 490, Vicissitudes of War 1
What was Chomsky’s motivation to publish?
• “I will not consider Reichling’s
criticisms of generative
grammar here. The cited remark is just one illustration of his complete
lack of comprehension
of the goals, concerns, and specific content of the work he was discussing, and his discussion is based on such
gross misrepresentations
of this work that comment is hardly called for” (Chomsky, p. 143).