TY - BOOK ID - 77938380 TI - Grammars and grammaticality PY - 1992 SN - 128331326X 9786613313263 9027277524 9789027277527 9027235759 6613313262 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammaticality (Linguistics) KW - Generative grammar. KW - English language KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Grammaticalness (Linguistics) KW - Acceptability (Linguistics) KW - Linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Syntax. KW - Verb. KW - Conjugation KW - Periphrastic verbs KW - Verb phrase KW - Derivation KW - Germanic languages KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax KW - Grammar KW - Generative grammar UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77938380 AB - At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as "linguistic competence", "language faculty", or, more recently, "I-language". Kac argues for the validity of the earlier goal of grammaticality and for a specific view of the relationship between the abstract, nonpsychological study of grammar and the investigation of the language faculty. The method of the book involves a formalization of traditional grammar, with emphasis on etiological analysis, that is, provi ER -