About David E. Johnson
Born 1946. David E. Johnson is an American linguist.
David E. Johnson (born December 21, 1946, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American linguist. He is the co-inventor of arc pair grammar.
Work Johnson is best known for his work on relational grammar, especially the development with Paul Postal in 1977 of arc pair grammar.
In the late 1990s, Johnson and Shalom Lappin published the first detailed critiques of Noam Chomsky's Minimalist program. This work was followed by a lively debate with proponents of minimalism on the scientific status of the program
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David E. Johnson was born on 21 December 1946.
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