Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Preface v
3. Table of contents vii
4. I. Syntax and semantics
5. Meaning and form 3
6. Stratificational solutions to unbridgeable gaps in transformational-generative grammar 37
7. Non-uniqueness in the treatment of the separability of semantics and syntax in compound expressions 87
8. II. Phonology and morphology
9. How generative is phonology? (On listing phonological surface forms in the lexicon) 109
10. Rule application in the pre-generative American phonology 145
11. Prolegomena to “Prolegomena to a theory of word-formation” 175
12. On the nature of morphophonemic alternation 185
13. The psychological validity of Chomsky and Halle’s vowel shift rule 233
14. III. Linguistic theory and the philosophy of language
15. Generalization, abduction, evolution, and laguage 263
16. What is a generative grammar 297
17. On the inadequacy of the tree as a formal concept in linguistic analyses 315
18. Language acquisition and common sense 321
19. On the nature of language and mind 329
20. IV. Epistemology and history linguistics
21. Epistemological dilemmas and the transformational-generative paradigm 351
22. Pre-war Prague School and post-war American anthropological linguistics 359
23. Transformational grammar and the philosophy of science 381
24. Bibliographical 447
25. Index of names 457