Linguistics Wars
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Linguistic Wars is a colloquial term for a protracted academic dispute in American generative linguistics which took place mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
It was a falling out between Noam Chomsky with some of his erstwhile followers who extended his ideas (generative semantics).
The Linguistics Wars is the title of a 1995 book by Randy Allen Harris on the topic (ISBN 9780195098341).
