Review of Sampson, Liberty and language , and of Matthews, Generative grammar and linguistic competence

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface and acknowledgements ix
4. Fact and fiction in grammatical analysis 1
5. Some recent studies on Port-Royal and Vaugelas 9
6. Review of Saltarelli, A phonology of Italian in a generative grammar 32
7. “Underlying representation” and observable fact in phonology 37
8. Review of Hockett, State of the Art 58
9. Some critiques of Chomskyan theory 80
10. Review of Hagège, La grammaire générative 89
11. Can linguistics be a science ? 94
12. Review of Sampson, Liberty and language , and of Matthews, Generative grammar and linguistic competence 98
13. Review of Newmeyer, Linguistic theory in America 103
14. Review of Fietz, Funktionaler Strukturalismus 113
15. Deconstructing Derrida on language 116
16. References 123
17. Index of names and topics 139