black hole pre chomskyan citations steve anderson new book morphology contain follow ing epigraph nt change publication linguistics become science linguists begin standing one another shoulders instead one another toes think point reached point redoing aspects language poorly done first time problem may originated fact little done syntax prior work generative school little comparison done since instigation movement jakobson halle work distinctive features also clearly superceded pre vious work making difficult find structuralist work relevant going today however anderson right chiding us carrying attitude morphology current trend around massachusetts hardly moved beyond bloomfield first claim affixes regular lexical items first rate morphologi cal study goes back stoic philosophers first tease apart grammatical categories different track back panini current morphology failing cite relevant sources failing take advantage discoveries struc turalist neogrammarian even classical morphologists pre decessors particularly adept finding problems theory linguistic sign varro 4745 first attempt define lexical categories terms n v well lexicalizations aristotle noticed grammatical morphemes differed lexical ones stoics first used terms signifier signified jumping middle discussion think mark touched real issue less chomsky members school quoted much many others make contri butions often ones quoted little result seeing often second third fourth reinvention wheel rbeard