The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) was founded in August 1974 by a group of linguists of the

Great Lakes region The Great Lakes region of North America is a binational Canadian–American region that includes portions of the eight U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin along with the Canadian p ...

. This was largely a reaction against the narrowing of the fieldNewmeyer, Frederick J. 1986. Has There Been a 'Chomskyan Revolution' in Linguistics? ''Language'' Vol. 62, No. 1 pp. 1-18. following

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky i ...

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generative grammar Generative grammar, or generativism , is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure. It is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguisti ...

theory. Its annual meetings are held at colleges and universities in both countries, from which volumes of

proceedings In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings is a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the confere ...

are published under the title ''LACUS Forum''.

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