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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."
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."
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