Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1.Language, Thought, and the Linguistics Wars

2.The Beauty of Deep Structure

3.Generative Semantics 1: The Model

4.Generative Semantics 2: The Heresy

5.The Vicissitudes of War

6.Generative Semantics 3: The Ethos

7.Generative Semantics 4: The Collapse

8.Twentieth Century Linguistics at Closing Time

9.The Aftermath: Twenty-First Century Linguistics

10.Chomsky Agonistes

Notes

Works Cited

Index