The History of Syntax, v.8 (scanned)
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The history of thinking about and describing syntax goes back thousands of years. But from the perspective of theorizing about syntax, which is our concern here, a critical point of departure is Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (Chomsky 1957) henceforth SS. I begin with some general observations about the goals of contemporary syntactic theory. Then, after briefly summarizing the main ideas of SS, and discussing methodology, I review some of the more important extensions, with an eye towards understanding where we are today, and how we got here. I touch on some of the more prominent branch points later in the chapter, in order to preserve as much as possible a sense of the historical flow. For convenience, I refer to the direct line of development from SS as “mainstream” generative grammar (MGG). This term reflects the central role that the Chomskyan program has played in the field, both in terms of the development of his proposals and alternatives to them. The contemporary history of syntax can be usefully understood in terms of a few fundamental questions. Answers to these questions have driven both the development of MGG, and the development of alternative syntactic theories. Among the questions that have proven to be most central and continue to fuel research are these:
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