Linguistic theory in America: the first quarter-century of transformational generative grammar
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PREFACE Xi
Chapter 1
The State of American Linguistics
in the Mid 1950s 1
1.1 A Period of Optimism 1
1.2 Structural Linguistics 3
1.2.1 The Philosophical Underpinnings 3
1.2.2 Structuralist Methodology 6
1.2.3 Language and Psychology in the 1950s 11
1.3 Clouds on the Horizon 13
1.3.1 Crisis in Empiricist Philosophy 13
1.3.2 Unresolved Problems in Structural Linguistics 15
Chapter 2
The Chomskyan Revolution 19
2.1 Overview 19
2.2 Syntactic Structures 20
2.2.1 Linguistics Made a Science 20
2.2.2 Simplicity and the Evaluation of Grammars 21
2.2.3 Three Models of Linguistic Description 22
2.2.4 Grammaticality and Acceptability 28
2.2.5 Grammar and Meaning 3 1
2.3 Noam Chomsky 33
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CONTENTS
2.4 Generative Grammars 35
2.5 Generative Phonology 37
2.5.1 The Prague School 37
2.5.2 Morris Halle 38
2.5.3 Early Generative Phonology 39
2.6 Language and Psychology after Chomsky 42
2.6.1 The Psychological Implications of the Theory 42
2.6.2 The Psychological Reality of Linguistic Constructs 44
2.7 Winning the Revolution 45
2.7.1 Robert B. Lees 45
2.7.2 The Ascendancy of Transformational Generative Grammar 46
2.8 The Growth of the Field 52
Chapter 3
From Syntactic Structures to Aspects of the Theory of Syntax 61
3.1 Introduction 61
3.2 Revisions in the Syntactic Component: 1957-1965 61
3.2.1 The Grammar of English Nominalizations 61
3.2.2 The “Traffic Rule” Problem 62
3.2.3 The Derived Constituent Structure Problem 64
3.2.4 Underlying Trigger Morphemes 67
3.2.5 The Abandonment of the Notion “Kernel Sentence” 68
3.2.6 Recoverability of Deletion 69
3.2.7 Subcategorization 71
3.3 The Incorporation of Semantics into the Model 73
3.3.1 Katz and Fodor (1963) 73
3.3.2 Levels of Syntactic Structure, Transformations, and Meaning 78
3.4 Some Assumptions Made Explicit 81
3.4.1 Competence and Performance 82
3.4.2 Linguistic Universals 83
3.4.3 Levels of Adequacy 83
3.5 The Aspects Model 85
3.5.1 The Level of Deep Structure 87
3.5.2 The Transformational Component 89
3.5.3 Syntax and Semantics 91
Chapter 4
The Late 1960s 93
4.1 Toward Abstract Syntax 93
4.1.1 Arguments Based on the Katz~Postal Hypothesis 96
4.1.2 Arguments Based on Aspects Hypotheses about Deep Structure 101
4.1.3 Conventional Syntactic Arguments for Abstract Deep Structures 105
4.1.4 Novel or Unusual Argument Types for Abstract Deep Structures 109
4.2 The Birth of Generative Semantics 112
Contents
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4.3 Chomsky’s Response to Abstract Syntax 114
4.3.1 The Arguments for the Lexicalist Hypothesis 115
4.3.2 The Initial Failure of Lexicalism 118
4.4 A Closer Look at the Arguments for Abstract Syntax 120
4.4.1 The Question of Selectional Restrictions 121
4.4.2 Problems with the Katz-Postal Hypothesis 123
4.4.3 The Syntactic Arguments for Abstract Syntax 127
4.5 Case Grammar 128
4.6 Abstract Syntax: A Summary 132
Chapter 5
The Linguistic Wars 133
5.1 Introduction 13 3
5.2 The 1970 Interpretive Model 134
5.3 Some Problems of Terminology 136
5.4 Early Generative Semantics 138
5.4.1 Against the Level of Deep Structure 140
5.4.2 Rule Government 143
5.4.3 Global Rules 144
5.4.4 Logic and Semantic Representation 148
5.4.5 The Appeal of Generative Semantics 151
5.4.6 The Chicago and Berkeley Linguistic Societies 152
5.5 Late Generative Semantics 155
5.5.1 Beyond Global Rules 156
5.5.2 Fuzzy Grammar 158
5.5.3 The End of Grammatical Theory 160
5.5.4 On the Inevitability of These Developments 161
5.6 The Early Debate 161
5.6.1 A Period of Acrimony 161
5.6.2 The Globality Debate 162
5.6.3 The Deep Structure Debate 164
5.6.4 Other Issues 166
5.7 The Later Debate: The Collapse of Generative Semantics 167
5.7.1 The Generative Semantic Dynamic 167
5.7.2 ‘ The Best Theory 169
5.7.3 Generative Semantic Style 171
5.7.4 The Generative Semanticists Organizational Problems 172
5.8 The Legacy of Generative Semantics 173
Chapter 6
Syntax in the 1970s:
Constraining the Syntactic Rules 175
6.1 The Crucial Need for Syntactic Constraints 175
6.2 Constraints on Transformations 176
6.2.1 Constraints on Extraction 177
6.2.2 The Structure-Preserving Constraint 180
6.2.3 Constraints on Rules of Anaphora 183
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6.3 “Blind Application” and Its Implications 185
6.3.1 Chomsky-Conditions 186
6.3.2 The Trace Theory of Movement Rules 189
6.4 Constraints on Base Rules 192
6.5 Surface Structure Constraints 195
6.6 Rule Interaction and Grammatical Organization 197
6.6.1 Rule Ordering 197
6.6.2 The Cycle 199
6.6.3 Syntax and Semantics 202
6.6.4 Syntax and Phonology 204
6.7 Syntax in the 1970s: Some Sociological Aspects 205
6.7.1 Publications 205
6.7.2 Three Groups of Syntacticians 206
Chapter 7
On the Boundary of Formal Grammar 209
7.1 Introduction 209
7.2 Pragmatics 209
7.2.1 Grammatical Approaches 210
7.2.2 Current Thinking 214
7.3 Perceptual Explanations 219
7.4 Functional Explanations 223
Chapter 8
Recent Developments in Syntax and Semantics 227
8.1 Work in Progress 227
8.2 Developments in Trace Theory 227
8.2.1 Chomsky s Recent Work 227
8.2.2 The Resistance to Chomsky s Model 232
8.3 Toward Nontransformational Grammar 236
8.3.1 The Autonomy Thesis 236
8.3.2 Nontransformational Models 240
8.4 Relational Grammar 241
8.5 Montague Grammar 245
8.6 Some Concluding Remarks 249
REFERENCES 251
NAME INDEX 277
GENERAL INDEX 283
INDEX OF RULES AND CONSTRAINTS 289
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