If not then who? And maybe someone can suggest a good book of history of English linguistics? Can't find myself. Thanks!
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If you could explain what you mean by "generalization of coordination", it might be possible to answer your question. However, without context, the phrase means next to nothing.– jlawlerApr 18, 2017 at 1:54
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1@jlawler the OP is asking about en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_(linguistics) and Chomsky's work in generalizing it is touched on here pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6211/… I believe OP is asking if (Chomsky 1957) is the first example of someone making this generalization.– Not_HereApr 18, 2017 at 11:35
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@Not_Here: So, conjunction reduction. Thank you. I certainly know of no earlier discussion.– jlawlerApr 18, 2017 at 23:24
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