'The contributions are informed, up-to-date and lucid, and many of them make unusual - in fact, unprecedented - efforts to present opposing viewpoints fairly and to look at what they have in common rather than at what divides them … The mixture of detached overviews and strongly argued positions works very well, in my view, and the editor is to be congratulated for the high standards that are maintained throughout. The tremendous intellectual energy and excitement of the field come through strongly, and I shan't hesitate to recommend many of the chapters to students.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; 1. Generative linguistics: an overview Steve Harlow and Nigel Vincent; 2. Syntactic theory James McCloskey; 3. Lexical structure Avery A. Andrews; 4. Semantic theory William A. Ladusaw; 5. Pragmatic theory Lawrence R. Horn; 6. Morphological theory Stephen R. Anderson; 7. Phonological theory Hans Basbøll; 8. Phonetic theory Mary E. Beckman; 9. The syntax-semantics interface Murvet Enc; 10. The syntax-phonology interface Geoffrey K. Pullum and Arnold M. Zwicky; 11. The phonology-phonetics interface Patricia A. Keating; 12. Syntactic change David Lightfoot; 13. Morphological change Stephen R. Anderson; 14. Phonological change Paul Kiparsky; 15. Mathematical properties of grammars Amy S. Weinberg; 16. Linguistics and the philosophy of language Alice Ter Meulen; 17. Linguistic typology Bernard Comrie; Appendix R. H. Robins; Index of names; Index of subjects.

'The contributions are informed, up-to-date and lucid, and many of them make unusual - in fact, unprecedented - efforts to present opposing viewpoints fairly and to look at what they have in common rather than at what divides them … The mixture of detached overviews and strongly argued positions works very well, in my view, and the editor is to be congratulated for the high standards that are maintained throughout. The tremendous intellectual energy and excitement of the field come through strongly, and I shan't hesitate to recommend many of the chapters to students.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; 1. Generative linguistics: an overview Steve Harlow and Nigel Vincent; 2. Syntactic theory James McCloskey; 3. Lexical structure Avery A. Andrews; 4. Semantic theory William A. Ladusaw; 5. Pragmatic theory Lawrence R. Horn; 6. Morphological theory Stephen R. Anderson; 7. Phonological theory Hans Basbøll; 8. Phonetic theory Mary E. Beckman; 9. The syntax-semantics interface Murvet Enc; 10. The syntax-phonology interface Geoffrey K. Pullum and Arnold M. Zwicky; 11. The phonology-phonetics interface Patricia A. Keating; 12. Syntactic change David Lightfoot; 13. Morphological change Stephen R. Anderson; 14. Phonological change Paul Kiparsky; 15. Mathematical properties of grammars Amy S. Weinberg; 16. Linguistics and the philosophy of language Alice Ter Meulen; 17. Linguistic typology Bernard Comrie; Appendix R. H. Robins; Index of names; Index of subjects.