Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgment V
3. Contents VII
4. Biographical Sketches XI
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Approaches to syntax
7. 2. Cognitive Grammar 23
8. 3. Construction Grammar 49
9. 4. Simpler Syntax 97
10. 5. Lexical Functional Grammar 123
11. 6. The Decathlon Model 155
12. 7. The Stupendous Success of the Minimalist Program 187
13. 8. The Parallel Architecture 215
14. 9. Usage-based Grammar 241
15. 10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax 263
16. 11. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to syntax 291
17. 12. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar 317
18. 13. Dependency Grammar 361
19. 14. Combinatory Categorial Grammar 389
20. Part II: Metatheoretical foundations
21. 15. Syntactic knowledge and intersubjectivity 423
22. 16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics 441
23. 17. The uncertainty of syntactic theorizing 469
24. 18. The multiparadigmatic structure of science and generative grammar 493
25. 19. The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria 521
26. 20. The research programme of Chomskyan linguistics 549
27. 21. Conclusions: On the use of the comparison of syntactic theories 573
28. Author Index 583
29. Language Index 593
30. Subject Index 595