Semantic Syntax

THE GENERATIVE SEMANTICS SIDE OF THE “LINGUISTICS WARS”, gathered in one volume. English edition copyright Oxford University Press 1974; first published 1974, REPRINTED 1978 — this copy; ISBN 0 19 875028 5. A slightly longer German version appeared as Generative Semantik: Semantische Syntax (Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1973). The contents are the opposition’s roll-call: JAMES D. McCAWLEY twice (“Prelexical Syntax” and “English as a VSO Language”), GEORGE LAKOFF twice (“Global Rules” and a derivational constraint on quantifiers), ROBIN LAKOFF on negative transportation, C. L. Baker, Rudolf de Rijk and Seuren himself. Read against the Chomsky shelf, this is the other half of the argument.