Table of Contents

1. Foreword and Acknowledgments; 2. Chomsky's Atavistic Revolution (with a little help from his enemies) (by Joseph, John E.); 3. The equivocation of form and notation in generative grammar (by Beedham, Christopher); 4. Chomsky's paradigm: What it includes and what it excludes (by Radwanska-Williams, Joanna); 5. Part I. The young revolutionary (1950-1960); 6. "Scientific revolutions" and other kinds of regime change (by Murray, Stephen O.); 7. Noam and Zellig (by Nevin, Bruce E.); 8. Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b (by Daniels, Peter T.); 9. Grammar and language in Syntactic Structures: Transformational progress and structuralist 'reflux' (by Swiggers, Pierre); 10. Part II. The cognitive revolution; 11. Chomsky's other Revolution (by Harris, Randy Allen); 12. Chomsky between revolutions (by Hyman, Malcolm D.); 13. Part III. Evolutions; 14. What do we talk about, when we talk about 'universal grammar', and how have we talked about it? (by Thomas, Margaret); 15. Migrating propositions and the evolution of Generative Grammar (by Tomalin, Marcus); 16. Universalism and human difference in Chomskyan linguistics: The first 'superhominid' and the language faculty (by Hutton, Christopher); 17. The evolution of meaning and grammar: Chomskyan theory and the evidence from grammaticalization (by Christy, T. Craig); 18. Chomsky in search of a pedigree (by Hamans, Camiel S.J.N.); 19. The "linguistic wars": A tentative assessment by an outsider witness (by Graffi, Giorgio); 20. Part IV. The Past and Future Directions; 21. British empiricism and Transformational Grammar: A current debate (by Leon, Jacqueline); 22. Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics (by Andresen, Julie T.); 23. Name index; 24. Subject index; 25. Index of cited works