Formal Versus Explanatory Generalizations in Generative Transformational Grammar: An Investigation Into Generative Argumentation (Linguistische Arbeiten)

✍ Scribed by Hans Ulrich Boas

• Publisher: Max Niemeyer Verlag
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE STATUS OF LINGUISTICS AS A SCIENCE
III. THE CONCEPT OF 'LINGUISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT GENERALIZATION (LSG)' AND ITS CRITICS
IV. THE REVISED EXTENDED STANDARD THEORY (REST) AND ITS MODULES VERSUS THE STANDARD THEORY (ST)
V. THE MOTIVATION FOR EXTENDING THE BASE COMPONENT: THE LEXICALIST HYPOTHESIS (LH)
VI. MOTIVATIONS FOR CONSTRAINING THE 'EXTENDED' CATEGORIAL RULES: X' THEORIES
VII. FURTHER ARGUMENTS AGAINST X1' AND X2 ' THEORIES
VIII. SOME CONCLUDING ARGUMENTS: 'ADVANCED' LEXICALISM VERSUS EARLY TRANSFORMATIONALISM
FOOTNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY