Peter Ludlow presents the first book on the philosophy of generative linguistics. He explains the motivation of the generative framework, describes its mechanis
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the prese
The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the s
Written by one of America's most prominent linguists, the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskian Revolution' - the
This book represents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together the author's most significant work on the theory of generative g