Generative Grammar

Copyright 1987 Longman Group UK; FIRST PUBLISHED 1987; ISBN 0-582-29131-3 paperback; LC 86-24758. The comparative survey of the field at the moment it fragmented: Chomsky’s standard theory and its problems, Government-Binding theory in detail, then GENERALISED PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR and LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR as rivals, and a closing chapter comparing all three. With the Chomsky shelf and Seuren’s generative-semantics reader also here, the collection now holds the main competing syntactic frameworks of the 1970s and 1980s side by side.