TY - JOUR
AU - Romaine, Suzanne
AB -  REVIEWS Hopefully, the summaries above sufficiently highlight the importance that the volume places on paradigm-based empirical argumentation and its usefulness as a reality check in the pursuit of the all important objective of achieving theoretical parsimony. REFERENCES CHOMSKY, NOAM. 1981. Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris. CHOMSKY, NOAM. 1982. Some concepts and consequences of the theory of government and binding. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. EMONDS, JOSEPH E. 1970. Root and structure-preserving transformations. Cambridge, MA: MIT dissertation. EMONDS, JOSEPH E. 1976. A transformational approach to English syntax. New York: Academic Press. EMONDS, JOSEPH E. 2000. Lexicon and grammar: The English syntacticon. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. University College Dublin Dublin 4 Ireland [j.ouhalla@ucd.ie] Methods in historical pragmatics. Ed. by SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE and IRMA TAAVITSAINEN. (Topics in English linguistics 52.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. Pp. 313. ISBN 9783110190410. $165 (Hb). Reviewed by SUZANNE ROMAINE, Merton College, University of Oxford The diversity of approaches informing the eleven essays in Methods in historical pragmatics indicates that what is termed `historical pragmatics' is `less well defined and constrained' than one might imagine (1). Although it is clear at least in principle that historical linguistics is the `launching pad of historical pragmatics' 
TI - Methods in historical pragmatics (review)
JF - Language
DA - 2009-10-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/linguistic-society-of-america/methods-in-historical-pragmatics-review-9NpFf4cRbW
SP - 719
EP - 720
VL - 85
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -