Linguistics Wars - Book

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The Linguistics Wars is also the title of a 1993 book by Randy Allen Harris on the topic (ISBN 9780195098341).

It touches on the issues of the dispute involving Chomsky and other significant individuals (Lakoff, Pinker, etc.) and also highlights how certain theories have been evolved with important features influencing modern-day linguistics theories.

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