In his 20s and 30s,Newmeyer was heavily involved in left politics,being an active member of Students for a Democratic Society in the late 1960s and of the International Socialists from 1971 to 1977. He was married to Carolyn Platt between 1968 and 1973,and in 1993 he married Marilyn Goebel. In 2006,he and Goebel moved to Vancouver,British Columbia.
Publications
Books written
1975. English Aspectual Verbs. The Hague:Mouton and Company.
1980. Linguistic Theory in America:The First Quarter Century of Transformational Generative Grammar. New York:Academic Press. Second edition 1986. First edition translated into Spanish 1982,Madrid:Alianza Editorial. Translations of second edition:Korean 1995,Seoul:Kul Press. Chinese 1998,Taipei:Crane Publishing Co,Ltd.;Japanese translation under contract.
1983. Grammatical Theory:Its Limits and Its Possibilities. Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Malay translation 1996,Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
1986. The Politics of Linguistics. Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Japanese translation 1994,Tokyo:Iwanami Shoten Publishers. Arabic translation 1997,Abha (Saudi Arabia):The Literary Club. Persian translation 2002,Ney (Iran).
1998. Language Form and Language Function. Cambridge,MA:MIT Press.
2005. Possible and Probable Languages:A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Books edited
1986. A Festschrift for Sol Saporta (with Michael Brame and Heles Contreras). Linguistic Research Monograph Series Publication. Seattle:Noit Amrofer Press.
1988. Linguistics:The Cambridge Survey. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. Spanish translation published 1990-1992 as Panorama de la Lingüística Moderna,Madrid:Visor Distribuciones.
Volume I:Linguistic Theory:Foundations.
Volume II:Linguistic Theory:Extensions and Implications.
Volume III:Language:Psychological and Biological Aspects.
Volume IV:Language:The Socio-Cultural Context.
1998. Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics (with Michael Darnell,Edith Moravcsik,Michael Noonan,and Kathleen Wheatley). Studies in Language Companion Series,Volume 41. Amsterdam:John Benjamins.
Volume I:General Papers.
Volume II:Case Studies.
References
↑Newmeyer, Frederick J. (1986). Linguistic Theory in America (Seconded.). Academic Press.
↑ Newmeyer, Frederick J. (1998). Language Form and Language Function. MIT Press.
↑ Newmeyer, Frederick J. (1991). "Functional Explanation in Linguistics and the Origins of Language," Language and Communication 11, 3-28, 97-108.
↑ Newmeyer, Frederick J. (2005). Possible and Probable Languages: A Generative Perspective on Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
↑ Newmeyer, Frederick J. (2003). "Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage," Language 79, 682-707.
Further reading
Koerner, E. F. K. (2004). Essays in the history of linguistics. Netherlands: J. Benjamins Pub. ISBN978-9027245946.
Tomalin, M. (2006). Linguistics and the formal sciences: the origins of generative grammar. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0521854818.
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