Frederick Newmeyer

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According to Wikipedia, Frederick J. Newmeyer is an American linguist who is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Washington and adjunct professor in the University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics and the Simon Fraser University Department of Linguistics. He has published widely in theoretical and English syntax and is best known for his work on the history of generative syntax and for his arguments that linguistic formalism and linguistic functionalism are not incompatible, but rather complementary. In the early 1990s he was one of the linguists who helped to renew interest in the evolutionary origin of language. More recently, Newmeyer argued that facts about linguistic typology are better explained by parsing constraints than by the principles and parameters model of grammar. Nevertheless, he has continued to defend the basic principles of generative grammar, arguing that Ferdinand de Saussure's langue/parole distinction as well Noam Chomsky's distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance are essentially correct.

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Language Form And Language Function (1998) (579)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey (1989) (367)
Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage (2003) (325)
Linguistic Theory In America (1980) (256)
Possible and probable languages: A generative perspective on linguistic typology (2008) (223)
Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language (1991) (206)
Iconicity and generative grammar (1992) (156)
Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Its Possibilities (1983) (153)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Index of names (1988) (121)
Against a parameter-setting approach to typological variation (2004) (101)
The politics of linguistics (1986) (94)
Possible And Probable Languages (2005) (91)
Explaining language universals (1990) (87)
Linguistic theory in America : the first quarter-century of transformational generative grammar (1981) (75)
Combinatorial Variability (2006) (72)
Optimality And Functionality: A Critique of Functionally-Based Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (2002) (64)
Generative Linguistics: An Historical Perspective (1995) (62)
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers (1999) (56)
The Linguistic Wars (1986) (56)
Grammatical Theory: Its Limits and Possibilities (1985) (55)
English aspectual verbs (1969) (55)
Language : psychological and biological aspects (1988) (53)
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: On the Reconstruction of ‘Proto-World’ Word Order (2000) (52)
Measuring Grammatical Complexity (2014) (48)
A Reply to the Critiques of 'Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage' (2005) (48)
Linguistic typology requires crosslinguistic formal categories (2007) (46)
On comparative concepts and descriptive categories: A reply to Haspelmath (2010) (46)
A Festschrift for Sol Saporta (1986) (46)
The regularity of idiom behavior (1974) (44)
On Gahl and Garnsey on Grammar and Usage (2006) (41)
Linguistic Theory in America: Second Edition (1986) (39)
Language : the socio-cultural context (1989) (39)
Has there been a 'Chomskyan revolution' in linguistics? (1986) (36)
Genetic dysphasia and linguistic theory (1997) (34)
What Can the Field of Linguistics Tell Us About the Origins of Language (2003) (31)
'All languages are equally complex': The rise and fall of a consensus (2012) (29)
4. Current challenges to the Lexicalist Hypothesis: An overview and a critique (2009) (28)
Universals in syntax (2008) (25)
The Prague School and North American functionalist approaches to syntax (2001) (22)
The Ontogenesis of the Field of Second Language Learning Research (1988) (22)
Form and Function in the Evolution of Grammar. (2017) (22)
On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization” (2009) (21)
Typological evidence and Universal Grammar (2004) (21)
A rejoinder to 'On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar: a reply to Newmeyer' by Ian Roberts and Anders Holmberg (2006) (20)
Formalism and functionalism in linguistics. (2010) (20)
Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems (2014) (20)
Motives for Language Change: Formal and functional motivation for language change (2003) (18)
Christopher S. Butler. Structure and function: A guide to three major structural-functional theories. Part 1. Approaches to the simplex clause & Part 2. From clause to discourse and beyond (2005) (16)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Extensions and implications of linguistic theory: an overview (1988) (16)
Linguistic theory : extensions and implications (1988) (16)
What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar: A critique of Thompson's analysis of object complements (2009) (14)
Linguistic theory : foundations (1989) (14)
What kinds of syntactic phenomena must biologists, neurobiologists, and computer scientists try to explain and replicate? (2009) (14)
On Split CPs and the ‘Perfectness’ of Language (2009) (14)
Some Remarks on the Functionalist-Formalist Controversy in Linguistics (1999) (12)
The Discrete Nature Of Syntactic Categories: Against A Prototype-Based Account (1999) (12)
Competing motivations and synchronic analysis (1994) (11)
Language Understanding: Towards a Post-Chomskyan Linguistics (1984) (11)
A Survey of Coordination Strategies in the World’s Languages (2005) (10)
The Source of Derived Nominals in English (1971) (10)
Cognitive and functional factors in the evolution of grammar (2004) (10)
Grammatical Functions, Thematic Roles, and Phrase Structure: Their Underlying Disunity (2001) (10)
Functional Explanation: (2020) (9)
On Nature and Language, and: The Language Organ: Linguistics as Cognitive Physiology, and: Language in a Darwinian Perspective (review) (2003) (9)
Natural selection and the autonomy of syntax (1990) (9)
Commentary on Sam Featherston, ‘Data in generative grammar: The stick and the carrot‘ (2007) (9)
The current convergence in linguistic theory: some implications for second language acquisition research (1987) (9)
2 The Language Muddle: Roy Harris and Generative Grammar (1997) (8)
O, what a tangoed web they weave … (1991) (8)
Three book-length studies of language evolution (2000) (8)
Nonsyntactic Explanations of Island Constraints (2016) (8)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Preface (1988) (8)
Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax, the: Goals and methods of generative syntax (2013) (7)
OPTIMALITY AND FUNCTIONALITY: SOME CRITICAL REMARKS ON OT SYNTAX (2000) (7)
On the role of parameters in Universal Grammar : a reply to Newmeyer (2006) (7)
WHAT CAN GRAMMATICALIZATION TELL US ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE (2006) (7)
THE IRRELEVANCE OF TYPOLOGY FOR GRAMMATICAL THEORY (2010) (7)
Formal and Functional Explanation (2016) (7)
A Rejoinder to Bresnan and Aissen (2002) (7)
Getting the word out: The early generativists’ multipronged efforts to diffuse their ideas (2014) (6)
Linguistic minimalism: Origins, concepts, methods, and aims (review) (2008) (6)
Chapter 25 Where , if anywhere , are parameters ? A critical historical overview of parametric theory (2017) (6)
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies (1999) (6)
Current Approaches to Syntax (2019) (6)
Negation and modularity (2006) (6)
Let s Eat (1971) (5)
Commentary on Denis Bouchard, ‘exaption and linguistic explanation’ (2005) (5)
Functionalism is / n ’ t formalism : an interactive review of Darnell et al . ( 1999 ) 1 (2003) (5)
The scope of American linguistics : papers of the first Golden Anniversary Symposium of the Linguistic Society of America, held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on July 24 and 25, 1974 (1975) (4)
Speaker-Hearer Asymmetry as a Factor in Language Evolution: A Functional Explanation For Formal Principles of Grammar (1990) (4)
Adaptation, optimal¡ty and functional explanation: Two serious problems (1999) (4)
Reply to Murray's Review (1982) (4)
Where do motivations compete (2014) (4)
A note on Chomsky on form and function (1994) (4)
‘More complicated and hence, rarer’: A look at grammatical complexity and cross-linguistic rarity (2007) (4)
A dialog concerning the linguistic status of creole languages (1988) (4)
‘Basic Word Order’ in Formal and Functional Linguistics and the Typological Status of ‘Canonical’ Sentence Types (2003) (3)
Prescriptive Grammar: A Reappraisal (1978) (3)
Some Remarks on Roeper ’ s Remarks on Chomsky ’ s ‘ Remarks ’ A comment on Tom Roeper : Chomsky ’ s Remarks and the transformationalist hypothesis (2005) (3)
Some remarks on Chomsky’s reading of Saussure (2016) (3)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Name index (1988) (3)
The Chomskyan Revolution (1986) (2)
Syntactic change: Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar (2014) (2)
Some incorrect implications of the fullaccess hypothesis (1996) (2)
On the Applicability of Transformational Generative Grammar (1982) (2)
Complexity and Relative Complexity in Generative Grammar (2021) (2)
The Position of Incorporation Transformations in the Grammar (1975) (2)
Accounting for rare typological features in formal syntax: three strategies and some general remarks (2010) (2)
Martin Joos’s Readings in Linguistics (2019) (2)
Müller's conclusions and linguistic research (1996) (2)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: The linguistic status of creole languages: two perspectives (1988) (2)
A problem with the verb‐initial hypothesis (1971) (2)
Agent-assignment, tree-pruning, and Broca's aphasia (2000) (2)
‘More complicated and hence, rarer’ (2007) (2)
Language evolution and syntactic theory (review) (2010) (1)
Two Challenges for ‘Neo-Sassurean’ Approaches to Morphosyntax (2017) (1)
Linguistic Theory, Language Teaching, Sociolinguistics: Can They Be Interrelated? (1973) (1)
Language: The Sociocultural Context. (Vol. 4 of Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey). (1989) (1)
Language variation and the autonomy of grammar (2015) (1)
Competence Vs. Performance; Theoretical Vs. Applied: The Development and Interplay of Two Dichotomies in Modern Linguistics (1990) (1)
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Contents of Volumes I, II, and III (1988) (1)
The SO/OS asymmetry and two interpretations of the MaOP: commentary on John A. Hawkins, ‘symmetries and asymmetries: their grammar, typology, and parsing’ (2002) (1)
Outside of the palace walls: Generative linguists in the 1970s and 1980s: Supplementary material (2020) (1)
Bridges between generative and cognitive linguistics (1999) (1)
Conceptual structure and syntax (1995) (1)
Studies in syntax and semantics: F. Kiefer (ed.), Foundations of language supplementary series 10. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht 1969. x, 242 pp. Price: ƒ 46,80 (1971) (1)
Heine, Bernd & Narrog, Heiko (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2012) (1)
The precyclic nature of predicate raising (1974) (1)
Three approaches to exceptionality in syntactic typology (2011) (1)
The Stokhof - van Lambalgen paradox resolved (2011) (1)
Semantic evidence and syntactic theory (2009) (1)
WHY AND HOW DO LANGUAGES CHANGE? (2009) (0)
The Sign Theory of Language and the form-meaning interface / La Théorie du langage basée sur le signe et l’interface forme-sens (2019) (0)
II .VERBS OF OCCURRENCE AND ASPECTUAL ADJECTIVES (1975) (0)
The Reception of Early Transformational Grammar in Europe (2021) (0)
Index to Volume 68 (1992) (2015) (0)
III. THE BEGIN-CLASS (I) (1975) (0)
Linguistic diversity and universal grammar : Forty years of dynamic tension within generative grammar (2002) (0)
Language & Species.Derek Bickerton (1993) (0)
Cognitive and communicative factors in language evolution (2009) (0)
La Théorie du langage basée sur le signe et l’interface forme-sens / The Sign Theory of Language and the form-meaning interface (2019) (0)
HOW THE BRAIN EVOLVED LANGUAGE.Donald Loritz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 227. $45.00 cloth. (2001) (0)
Review of Geoffrey J.Huck and John A.Goldsmith, Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates (2002) (0)
Letters to Language (2004) (0)
Exceptional language and linguistics Edited by Loraine K. Obler and Lise Menn (review) (2015) (0)
English derived nominals in three frameworks (2011) (0)
JONG-BOK KIM and IVAN A. SAG NEGATION WITHOUT HEAD MOVEMENT (2015) (0)
Separate NSF directorates. (1991) (0)
On the Possible and the Probable in Language (2005) (0)
Dialectology Meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective (review) (2007) (0)
Index to Volume 60 (1984) (2015) (0)
Crisis in the Linguistic Society of America (2020) (0)
The State of American Linguistics in the Mid 1950s (1986) (0)
2 The Language Muddle (1997) (0)
CNJ volume 63 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2018) (0)
A post-Bloomfieldian’s last stand: Charles Hockett’s attempt to resign from the LSA in 1982 (2020) (0)
The Locus of Functional Explanation (2005) (0)
Why Typology Doesn ’ t Matter to Grammatical Theory * (2002) (0)
SEMANTIC DATA AND THE COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM (2007) (0)
The Rise of Generative Semantics (1986) (0)
The relevance of introspective data (2020) (0)
APPENDIX ASPECTUAL VERBS AND THE LEVEL OF DEEP STRUCTURE (1975) (0)
From Syntactic Structures to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1986) (0)
VI .THE MODAL AUXILIARY (1975) (0)
The Extended Standard Theory (1986) (0)
Michael Tomasello (ed.),The new psychology of language: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1998. Pp. xxiii+292. (1999) (0)
Linguistic Diversity and Universal Grammar (1995) (0)
A reply to the commentary by Artemis Alexiadou (2011) (0)
Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky . By Peter Hugoe Matthews (1996) (0)
Apolitical Linguistics?@@@The Politics of Linguistics (1990) (0)
Two contrasting approaches for capturing typological variation in language (2005) (0)
Parameters, Performance, and the Explanation of Typological Generalizations (2005) (0)
The Historiography of Generative Linguistics. By András Kertész (2019) (0)
Conversational corpora : when “big is beautiful” (2019) (0)
American Linguists Look at Swiss Linguistics, 1925-1940 (2015) (0)
The New Consensus and the New Rift in Generative Syntax (1986) (0)
Review of “200 Years of Syntax: A critical survey” by Giorgio Graffi (2001) (0)
Meetings of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen during the season 2009–2010 (2010) (0)
In Defense of the Saussurean View of Grammar (2005) (0)
American Linguistics in Transition (2022) (0)
Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In Honor of Eloise Jelinek (review) (2004) (0)
Linguistic Diversity and Universal Grammar: 40 years of Dynamic Tension within Generative Grammar (1995) (0)
The origins of language: A slim guide by James R. Hurford (review) (2015) (0)
Letters to Language (2007) (0)
Memorial tributes to Robert B. Lees (1997) (0)
A rejoinder to Maarten Lemmens’s paper ‘In defence of frequency generalisations and usage-based linguistics. An answer to Frederick Newmeyer’s “Conversational corpora : when big is beautiful”’ (2019) (0)
E. F. K. Koerner and Aleksander Szwedek (Eds.). Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the Early Beginnings to the End of the Twentieth Century. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. 335 pp. $135.00. ISBN 1‐58811‐177‐6. (2003) (0)
V. THE BEGIN-CLASS (III) (1975) (0)
IV. THE BEGIN-CLASS (II) (1975) (0)
Chomsky and Usage‐Based Linguistics (2021) (0)
Competence vs. Performance; Theoretical vs. Applied (1990) (0)

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