Table of contents
Prefacev
I. Syntax and semantics
Meaning and form: Some fallacies of asemantic grammar3
Stratificational solutions to unbridgeable gaps in transformational-generative grammar37
Non-uniqueness in the treatment of the separability of semantics and syntax in compound expressions87
II. Phonology and morphology
How generative is phonology? (On listing phonological surface forms in the lexicon)109
Rule application in the pre-generative American phonology145
Prolegomena to “Prolegomena to a theory of word-formation”: A reply to Morris Halle175
On the nature of morphophonemic alternation185
The psychological validity of Chomsky and Halle’s vowel shift rule233
III. Linguistic theory and the philosophy of language
Generalization, abduction, evolution, and laguage263
What is a generative grammar297
On the inadequacy of the tree as a formal concept in linguistic analyses315
Language acquisition and common sense321
On the nature of language and mind329
IV. Epistemology and history linguistics
Epistemological dilemmas and the transformational-generative paradigm351
Pre-war Prague School and post-war American anthropological linguistics359
Transformational grammar and the philosophy of science381
Bibliographical447
Index of names457
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