Introduction

This collection assembles all of my papers on the origins and development of generative grammar, as well as a few sections of my book Linguistic Theory in America (LTA). Several of the papers have never appeared in print before or were published in such obscure locations that this is the first realistic opportunity for interested linguists and historiographers of linguistics to look at them. The essays in this volume were written over a fifteen-year period, from the first edition of LTA, which appeared in 1980, to the review of Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debates by Geoffrey Huck and John Goldsmith, which I prepared expressly for this volume.