Generative Grammar in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. The Ethic Dative in German

   • Werner Abraham

   Pages 1-19

3. Maximi Planudis in Memoriam

   • John M. Anderson

   Pages 20-47

4. Sets of Implications as the Interpretative Component of a Grammar

   • Irena Bellert

   Pages 48-68

5. Generative Grammar and European Linguistics

   • Manfred Bierwisch

   Pages 69-111

6. Über den Begriff und die Begründung Einer Allgemeinen Sprachlehre

   • Herbert E. Brekle

   Pages 112-121

7. Some Underlying Structures in Swahili

   • J. J. Christie

   Pages 122-140

8. Two Cases of Exceptional Rule Ordering

   • François Dell

   Pages 141-153

9. ‘Noch’ and ‘Schon’ and their Presuppositions

   • Monika Doherty

   Pages 154-177

10. French ‘PEU’ and ‘UN PEU’. A Semantic Study

    • Oswald Ducrot

    Pages 178-202

11. On Grammatical Reference

    • Maurice Gross

    Pages 203-217

12. On Presuppositions

    • Ferenc Kiefer

    Pages 218-242

13. Reduction in Dutch Measure Phrase Sentences

    • W. G. Klooster

    Pages 243-283

14. Über einige Schwierigkeiten beim Postulieren Einer ‘Textgrammatik’

    • Ewald Lang

    Pages 284-314

15. On the Possessive Forms of the Hungarian Noun

    • I. A. Mel’čuk

    Pages 315-332

16. A Generative Account of the ’Category Of State’ in Russian

    • J. Miller

    Pages 333-359

17. On the Semantic Treatment of Predicative Expressions

    • Haldur Õim

    Pages 360-386

18. Government Structure Types of the Verbs of Saying and Action Situations

    • H. Rätsep

    Pages 387-406

19. Some Problems Connected with the Translation of Relative Clauses into Predicate Calculus

    • C. Rohrer

    Pages 407-418

20. How to Deal with Syntactic Irregularities: Conditions on Transformations or Perceptual Strategies?

    • Nicolas Ruwet

    Pages 419-444

The present volume is intended to give an overall picture of research in pro­ gress in the field of generative grammar in various parts of Europe. The term 'generative grammar' must, however, be understood here rather broadly. What seemed to be an easily definable technical term several years ago is becoming more and more vague and imprecise. Research in generative gram­ mar is carried on according to rather diversified methodological principles and being a generative grammarian is often more a matter of confession than any adherence to the common line of methodology which can be traced back to the conception of grammatical description initiated by Noam Chomsky. The direct or indirect influence of this conception is, however, clearly recog­ nizable in most of the papers of this volume. The most difficult thing was, naturally enough, to select appropriate papers in the realm of semantics. Apart from the special trend in generative grammar referred to as 'generative semantics' (though here, too, we might ponder on what 'generative' really means) the term 'generative' is hardly employed in semantics. The search for semantic primes, the application of the methods of mathematical logic, the inquiry into the intricate relationships between syntax and semantics and the utilization of syntactic information in semantics are perhaps the most charac­ teristic traits of contemporary semantics. All of this, of course, is at no variance with the principles of generative grammar, on the contrary, most of it has been made possible through the achievements of generative grammar.

• Flexion
• Flexive
• Grammatik
• Tempora
• Textgrammatik
• comparative
• grammar
• linguistics
• predicative
• preposition
• pronominal
• quantifiers
• relative clauses
• syntactic

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