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Band 150:: Boas, Hans Ulrich: Formal versus explanatory generalizations in generative transformational grammar. An investigation into generative argumentation. XVII/460 S. - Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1984.
ISBN: 3-484-30150-3

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IDS-Bibliothek: Sig. QA 931

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I.	Introduction	S. 1
II.	The Status of Linguistics as a Science	S. 7
III.	The Concept of ‘Linguistically Significant Generalization’ (LSG) and its Critics	S. 34
IV.	The Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST) and its Modules versus the Standard Theory (ST)	S. 72
V.	The Motivation for Extending the Base Component: The Lexicalist Hypothesis (LH)	S. 83
VI.	Motivations for Constraining the ‘Extended’ Categorial Rules: X' Theories	S. 159
VII.	Further Arguments against X₁' and X₂' Theories	S. 239
VIII.	Some Concluding Arguments: ‘Advanced’ Lexicalism versus Early Transformationalism	S. 330

Footnotes		S. 359
Bibliography		S. 442

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I.	Introduction		S. 1
1.1.		Some History	S. 1
1.2.		Aims and Purposes	S. 5
II.	The Status of Linguistics as a Science		S. 7
2.1.		The Early Theory and the “Standard View” of Scientific Theory Construction	S. 7
2.2.		The Empirical Scientific Status of the Standard Theory and its Extensions and Revisions	S. 14
2.3.		Explanation versus Explication	S. 22
III.	The Concept of ‘Linguistically Significant Generalization’ (LSG) and its Critics		S. 34
3.1.		Different LSGs as Bases for Different Theories	S. 34
3.2.		LSGs and the Concept of ‘Independent Motivation’	S. 40
3.3.		The Role of Hypothetical Constructs	S. 44
3.4.		Linguistically Significant versus Statistically Significant Generalizations	S. 55
3.5.		LSGs and the Lexical Extension of Linguistic Forms and Processes	S. 64
3.6.		Formal versus Explanatory Generalizations	S. 66
IV.	The Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST) and its Modules versus the Standard Theory (ST)		S. 72
4.1.		Chomsky (1980)	S. 72
4.2.		Proliferation of Subtheories and of Levels of Representations	S. 75
4.3.		Data Restrictions	S. 77
4.4.		Preview: Examining the evidence for REST	S. 81
V.	The Motivation for Extending the Base Component: The Lexicalist Hypothesis (LH)		S. 83
5.1.		The Problem of the 'Trading Relations1 between the Base and the Transformational Component (LH or TH)	S. 83
5.2.		Chomsky's Original Arguments for LH and Their Refutation	S. 84
5.3.		Further Counterevidence to LH	S. 115
5.4.		The “Empirical” Distinction between Transformations and Lexical Rules: Wasow (1977)	S. 148
VI.	Motivations for Constraining the ‘Extended’ Categorial Rules: X' Theories		S. 159
6.0.		Preview	S. 159
6.1.		Chomsky's Original Motivation for X' Theories	S. 159
6.2.		The X' Schema as a Formalization of LH	S. 163
6.3.		Counterevidence to LH as Counterevidence to X' Theory	S. 164
6.4.		Additional Counterevidence to X' Theories	S. 172
VII.	Further Arguments against X₁' and X₂' Theories		S. 239
7.0.		Introduction	S. 239
7.1.		X" Systems and the Modifier-Head Distinction (or the clearly ‘unclear’ case of prenominal adjectives)	S. 239
7.2.		The Alleged Restrictivity of X" Categorial Rules	S. 297
7.3.		The Restrictivity of the SS-Theory versus EST, REST and RREST	S. 310
VIII.	Some Concluding Arguments: ‘Advanced’ Lexicalism versus Early Transformationalism		S. 330
8.1.		Introduction	S. 330
8.2.		‘Advanced’ Lexicalism: Recursive Word-Structure Rules, a ‘Lexical’ Lexicon and ‘Transformational’ Insertion Conditions	S. 331
8.3.		‘Morphological’ Insertions as Mirror-Images of Syntactic Ones	S. 335
8.4.		Disambiguation of Morphological Structures by Structure-Building ‘Semantic’ Interpretation Rules, i.e. Syntactic Paraphrases	S. 337
8.5.		The ‘Clausiness’ Squish: Syntactic Phrases as Inputs to Word-Structure Rules	S. 339
8.6.		‘Morphological’ Argument Structure Equals Syntactic Argument Structure	S. 340
8.7.		The DOC as Counterevidence to Early and ‘Advanced’ Lexicalism: Verbal Nexus Combinations and N+N Compounds	S. 344
8.8.		Hypothetical Verbs as “Semantic Features” in N+N Compounds or the Vacuousness of Modular Solutions to the Variability Problem	S. 347
8.9.		Structure-Building ‘Interpretive’ Filters as Substitutes for Transformations	S. 352
8.10.		Conclusions: The Common Failures of Lexicalist Models versus TH	S. 354

Footnotes			S. 359
	Footnotes to Chapter I		S. 359
	Footnotes to Chapter II		S. 360
	Footnotes to Chapter III		S. 365
	Footnotes to Chapter IV		S. 375
	Footnotes to Chapter V		S. 377
	Footnotes to Chapter VI		S. 392
	Footnotes to Chapter VII		S. 408
	Footnotes to Chapter VIII		S. 436
Bibliography			S. 442

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