A Survey of Linguistic Theories, Third Edition

"This book is designed as a textbook and is intended to present a sample of the more popular approaches to linguistic theorizing. It covers different aspects of each theory including general ontology, methodology, world view, and certain specifics including its problem-solving capacity regarding the English auxiliary complex. It gives a brief summary of the salient points of each theory and concludes with a brief treatment of concurrent developments in phonology. Included are discussions on * tagmemics * generative transformational grammar * stratificational linguistics * Montague grammar * generalized phrase structure grammar * lexical-functional grammar * relational grammar, and * functional approaches to grammar."