Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword 1
4. The Scientific Study of Human Language 3
5. Traditional Grammars 13
6. The Emergence of Linguistic Structuralism 25
7. Martinet's Functional Syntax 35
8. Tesniere's Structural Syntax 45
9. Pike's Tagmemics 59
10. The London School 71
11. Formal Syntax 87
12. Bloomfieldian Syntax 99
13. Stratificational Grammars 111
14. String Analysis 123
15. Automata and Syntax 135
16. Transformations 145
17. Generative Grammar 159
18. Recent Developments in Transformational Generative Grammar 171
19. Stepwise Grammars 203
20. Syntax and Semantics; Form and Function 223
21. Footnotes 231
22. Bibliography 247
23. Index 273