I admire Chet's courage and vision. He says:

"If we see the 40s & 50s as the years in which constituent structure (IC
analysis, etc.) was explored, the 60s and the 70s as the years in which
the theory of formal languages (FSGs, CS-PSGs, CF-PSGs, etc) was
developed and which together with the phenomena first pointed out
systematically in Haj Ross's dissertation are the lasting legacy of
that period, the 80s and 90s could be said to be the time, on the
formal side, of the exploration of grammatical relations (LFG and WG)
and on the less formal side, the first period of exploration of the
boundaries (and lack of boundaries) between language and the rest of
cognition."
## Yes, I think the 80s and 90s will be remembered as the birth of
Cognitive Linguistics, which is one of the major players in Chet's
"exploration of the (lack of) boundaries between lang and the rest of
cognition".  I'd like to think the 00s will be the period when linguistics
rejoins its roots in language teaching.



Richard (= Dick) Hudson

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