APPROACHES TO SYNTAX -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- FOREWORD -- 1. THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUA GE -- 1. Speech acts: -- 2. Scientific study: -- 3. The naive speaker and his language: -- 4. Studying the results of speech acts: -- 5. The place of syntax: -- 2. TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS -- 1. Origin and foundations: -- 2. Development of the tradition: -- 3. General and particular grammars: -- 4. Inadequacies of the system: -- 5. Evolution of traditional grammar: -- 6. Innovators: -- 7. Importance of innovators: -- 3. THE EMERGENCE OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURALISM -- 1. Prestructuralists: -- 2. Language is a form: -- 3. The notion of value: -- 4. The notion of function: -- 4. MARTINET'S FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX -- 1. Syntax and experience: -- 2. Functional classification of monemes: -- 3. Functional classification of syntagms: -- 4. Detailed classification of dependent monemes: -- 5. Schema of a functional analysis: -- 6. Comments: -- 5. TESNIERE'S STRUCTURAL SYNTAX -- 1. Syntactic connection: -- 2. The structure of simple sentences: -- 3. The origin of complexities: -- 4. Transference: -- 5. Summary: -- 6. Perspectives on Relational grammar: -- 6. PAKE'S TAGMEMICS -- 1. A theory of the structure of human beha viour: -- 2. Etic and emic standpoints: -- 3. Class/slot correlati ons: -- 4. The three modes: -- 5. Minimal and larger units: -- 6. Particles and waves: -- 7. Schema of a tagmemic analysis: -- 8. Tagmemics and other theories: -- 7. THE LONDON SCHOOL -- 1. Ethnological origins: -- 2. J.R. Firth's approach to linguistic description: -- 3. Problematical tasks: -- 4. For a complete theory of linguistic descriptions: -- 5. Categories: -- 6. Functional interpretation of the system: -- 7. The form of a description: -- 8. Implications of Halliday's theory of linguistic description: -- 8. FORMAL SYNTAX.

1. Need for a formal syntax: -- 2. Principles of formal linguistics: -- 3. Basic syntactic phenomena: -- 4. Models: -- 9. BLOOMFIELDIAN SYNTAX -- 1. Morphemes and tagmemes: -- 2. Immediate Constituent Analysis: -- 3. Formalization of ICA: -- 4. Selectional problems: -- 10. STRATIFICATIONAL GRAMMARS -- 1. The notion of level: -- 2. Wellformedness of one level - tactic rules: -- 3. Correspondence between levels: -- 4. Sound to meaning. Meaning to sound: -- 5. Notation: -- 6. Tagmemics and stratificational grammar: -- 11. STRING ANALYSIS -- 1. Elementary sentences and adjuncts: -- 2. Order structures in String analysis: -- 3. Selectional structures in String analysis: -- 4. Relations between ICA and String analysis: -- 5. Relations of String analysis with functional syntax: -- 12. AUTOMATA AND SYNTAX -- 1. Notion of automaton: -- 2. Automata and languages: -- 3. Reformulation of the preceding models: -- 4. Problems of selectional structure: -- 13. TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1. Distributional analysis of discourse: -- 2. Selectional invariants: -- 3. Description of a language: -- 4. Transformations as linguistic signs: -- 5. A generative model of language: -- 14. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR -- 1. Two ways of considering the se lection problem: -- 2. A generative transformational model: -- 3. Consequences as to the notion of transformation: -- 4. Unification - generalized Deep Structure: -- 5. Representation of selectional structure: -- 6. Extensions: -- 15. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSFORMATIONAL GENERATIVE GRAMMAR -- 1. Description and theory: -- 2. Generative Semantics: -- 3. The lexicalist hypothesis: -- 4. The X system: -- 5. Conditions on transformations: -- 6. Structural descriptions: the road to "Move α" -- 7. Trace theory and rules of interpretation: -- 8. Are transformations necessary? -- 16. STEPWISE GRAMMARS -- 1. Three types of syntactic regularities:.

2. Syntax and computing: -- 3. Extended finite state automata: -- 4. A standard form for stepwise grammars: -- 5. Interpretations: -- 6. Stepwise grammars and the process of speaking: -- 7. Stepwise grammars and the lexicon: -- 17. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- FORM AND FUNCTION -- 1. Syntactic wellformedness and functional considerations: -- 2. Direct and mediate theories: -- 3. Langue and parole: -- 4. Universals: -- FOOTNOTES -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.