According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it–a generative
grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set …

The aim of this handbook is to provide a forum in which some of the generative syntacticians
whose work has had an impact on theoretical syntax over the past 20 years are invited to …

This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both
transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents …

Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal
Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating …

A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating
and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …

Since the early 60's, several “alternatives” have been proposed for the theory of generative
Transformational Grammar (TG). Many of these alternatives, however, have been departures …

Although linguistic sis commonl y define das" th e scientifi c stud yof language," a mor e
hones t characterizatio n migh tbe" anythin g anyon e ha sto say abou t languag e tha t …

Contemporary study of language has turned to questions of linguistic structure and cognitive
psychology of a sort that aroused little interest in the immediately preceding period. The …

The goal of this contribution to the Elements series is to closely examine Merge, its form, its
function, and its central role in current linguistic theory. It explores what it does (and does not …