Open AccessAn important anniversary in linguistics
Author(s) -
Ranko Bugarski
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0864035b
Subject(s) - linguistics , applied linguistics , corpus linguistics , theoretical linguistics , field (mathematics) , key (lock) , historical linguistics , philosophy , history , computer science , mathematics , computer security , pure mathematics
In 1957 two ground-breaking books were published in the field of linguistics Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and Lado's Linguistics Across Cultures, which have strongly influenced the development of theoretical and applied linguistics respectively over the past half-century. This paper briefly compares their widely different approaches, noting also certain points of contact that subsequent research has revealed. Substantial segments of these investigations are then presented through an analysis of the four key words in the titles of these two books. The article ends with a few fragments of the author's personal reminiscences concerning Chomsky and Lado