Table of contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and Acknowledgments xi
4. Chomsky’s Atavistic Revolution (with a little help from his enemies) 1
5. The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar 19
6. Chomsky’s paradigm 43
7. Part I. The young revolutionary (1950–1960)
8. “Scientific revolutions” and other kinds of regime change 75
9. Noam and Zellig 103
10. Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b 169
11. Grammar and language in Syntactic Structures 215
12. Part II. The cognitive revolution
13. Chomsky’s other Revolution 237
14. Chomsky between revolutions 265
15. Part III. Evolutions
16. What do we talk about, when we talk about ‘universal grammar’, and how have we talked about it? 301
17. Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar 315
18. Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics 337
19. The evolution of meaning and grammar 353
20. Chomsky in search of a pedigree 377
21. The “linguistic wars” 395
22. Part IV. The Past and Future Directions
23. British empiricism and Transformational Grammar 423
24. Historiography’s contribution to theoretical linguistics 445
25. Name index 473
26. Subject index 481
27. Index of cited works 487