3. “What is syntax?”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I: The age of psychologism in linguistics
6. 2. The rise and fall of ‘psychologistic’ syntax 15
7. 3. “What is syntax?” 73
8. 4. The analyses of the sentence and of the word groups 111
9. Part II: The age of structural linguistics
10. 5. The role of syntax in the structuralist systems 167
11. 6. Structuralist approaches to sentence analysis 227
12. 7. The techniques of syntactic description 263
13. Part III: The age of syntactic theories
14. 8. The shaping of syntactic theories 309
15. 9. Different views of syntax 369
16. 10. The ‘Chomskian program’ 425
17. References 487
18. Index of names 519
19. Index of subjects 529