Syntactic Structures after 60 Years: The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics

Contents\nPart I: Syntactic Structures\nPreface\nTable of contents\n1. Introduction\n2. The independence of grammar\n3. An elementary linguistic theory\n4. Phrase Structure\n5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Descriptions\n6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory\n7. Some Transformations in English\n8. The Explanatory power of linguistic Theory\n9. Syntax and semantics\n10. Summary\n11. Appendix I: Natations and Terminology\n12. Appendix II: Exemples of English Phrase structure and transformational rules\nBibliography\nPart II: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nSyntactic Structures. Some retrospective comments\nSyntactic Structures: Formal Foundations\nThe Autonomy of Syntax\nRevolutionary New Ideas Appear Infrequently\nAcceptability judgments and grammaticality, prospects and challenges\nThe explanatory power of linguistic theory\nKernel sentences, phrase structure grammars, and theta roles\nTransformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory\nGrammatical vs. Lexical Formatives\nSyntactic Structures and Morphology\nConstructions\nMeanings via Syntactic Structures\nBack to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interfacedriven minimalism\nEnglish verbs in Syntactic Structures\nPassive\nDiscovering syntactic variation