GRAMMATICAL THEORY AND METASCIENCE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- 1.0. THE IDEA OF 'POSITIVISM' -- 1.1. The Data of Positivist Science -- the Definition of 'Empirical' -- 1.2. Explanation, Prediction, and Testing -- 1.3. Comparison with Peirce's Logic of Science -- 1.4. Theory and Observation -- 1.5. Ontology -- 1.6. Concluding Remarks -- 2.0. THE IDEA OF 'HERMENEUTICS' -- 2.1. Psychology -- 2.2. Sociology -- 2.3. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy -- 2.4. Sociology of Knowledge -- 2.5. Philosophy -- 2.6. Logic -- 2.7. Concluding Remarks -- 3.0. 20TH-CENTURY LINGUISTIC THEORIES: A BRIEF SURVEY -- 3.1. Saussure -- 3.2. Hjelmslev -- 3.3. Sapir -- 3.4. Bloomfield -- 3.5. Harris -- 3.6. Transformational Grammar -- 3.7. Some Recent Developments in Linguistic Theory -- 3.8. Conclusion -- 4.0. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE -- 4.1. Characterisation of the Traditionist Epistemology -- 4.2. Refutation of the Traditionist Epistemology -- 4.2.1. The Axiomaticity of the Concepts of Person and Thing -- 4.2.2. Mind, Behaviour, and Environment -- 4.2.3. Characterisation of Mental Phenomena: the Notion of 'Pattern' -- 4.2.4. General Characteristics of the Conceptual Distinctions Employed in the Present Study -- 4.2.5. The Impossibility of Private Languages -- 4.3. Implications for Linguistic Theory -- 4.3.1 . Psycholinguistics -- 4.3.2. Theory of Grammar -- 5.0. THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE -- 5.1. Ontology: Rules of Language as Constituted by 'CommonKnowledge ' -- 5.2. Epistemology: the Distinction between Language and Linguistic Intuition -- 5.3. Rules of Language and Certainty -- 5.4. Rules of Language and Social Control -- 6.0. THE BASIS OF THE NONEMPIRICAL NATURE OF GRAMMAR -- 6.1. The Difference Between Rule-Sentences and EmpiricalHypotheses -- 6.2. Examples of Rules and Rule-Sentences.

6.3. Two Different Types of Rule-Sentence -- 7.0. THE ΙΝEL IMIΝΑΒI LΙΤΥ OF LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITY -- 7.1. A Synchronic Grammar Does not Investigate Spatiotemporal Utterances, but Correct Sentences -- 7.2. Grammatical Concepts Are not Comparable to Theoretical Concepts of Natural Science -- 7.3 Rules Ave not Regularities of Non-Normative Actions -- 7.4. Grammatical Descriptions Cannot Be Replaced by Psycholinguists'c and/or Socio linguistic Descriptions -- 7.5. The Position of Transformational Grammar vis-à-vis Linguistic Normativity -- 8.0. LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR -- 8.1. The Basis of the Difference between Natural Science andHuman Science: Observer's Knowledge vs. Agent's Knowledge -- 8.2. The Two-Level Nature of the Human Sciences : Atheoretical vs. Theoretical -- 8.3. The Two-Level Nature of Grammar -- 8.4. The Ontological Reality of Grammatical Descriptions -- 9.0. THE METHODOLOGY OF GRAMMAR -- 9.1. General Remarks -- 9.2. Explanation and Prediction -- 9.3. Testing -- 9.4. Universal Linguistic Theory -- 9.5. Appendix: Examples Taken from the Transformationalist Literature -- 10.0. GRAMMAR AND LOGIC -- 10.1. The Basts of the Similarity 'between Generative Grammars and Systems of Logic -- 10.2. Testing -- 10.3. Explanation -- 11.0. GRAMMAR AND PHILOSOPHY -- 11.1. The Methodology of Classical Philosophy -- 11.2. The Concept of 'Explication' -- 11.3. Grammars as Instances of Explication -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chap. 1. THE IDEA OF 'POSITIVSM' -- Chap. 2. THE IDEA OF 'HERMENEUTICS' -- Chap. 3. 20-TH CENTURY LINGUISTIC THEORIES -- Chap. 4. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE -- Chap. 5. THE CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE -- Chap. 6. THE BASIS OF THE NONEMPIRICAL NATURE OF GRAMMAR -- Chap. 7. THE INELIMINABILITY OF LINGUISTIC NORMATIVITY -- Chap. 8. LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR -- Chap. 9. THE METHODOLOGY OF GRAMMAR -- Chap. 10. GRAMMAR AND LOGIC.

Chap. 11. GRAMMAR AND PHILOSOPHY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TERMS.