En torno a la presentación del libro Lingüística Generativa:

desde los estudios teóricos a las reflexiones histórico–filosóficas

Abstract

The present text is configured as a presentation of the ideas found in the book: Generative Linguistics: from theoretical studies to the historical-philosophical reflections recently published. The articles included in the first part of the book concentrate in some aspects of the relation between linguistic theory and facts of language. This mode lays emphasis on the idea that theory is constructed in relation to the empiric phenomenon and, on more than one occasion, the latter returns to the scope of the former and directs it towards some adjustment or revision. On this basis, the articles reviewed in the present paper are elaborated in the framework of Generative Grammar, and they consist of a set of topics such as the role of functional and lexical categories, the categorial validity of the adjective, the formation of de-adjetival verbs and sentential/transentential interpretation. The originality of these works resides in the perspectives from which these topics are considered, that are clearly expressed in the questions highlighted in the review of each article. The second part comprises a set of articles that focus on epistemological subjects and logical-semantic topics in the framework of the generative approach. This section also adds a historical approach, which allows us to reconstruct changes in various categories, such as "parameters" since its formulation in Government and Binding Theory until its conception in Linguistic Minimalism; as well as key concepts as Universal Grammar in its various proposals in the development of Chomskyan Linguistics; or changes that have taken place in the relationship between language and thought in the current Minimalist Program and its biolinguistic approach. The present review has as its aim not to delve into details related to the substantial content of these four works but to consider which are the key core ideas, topics and theoretical concepts of the Generative Grammar Research Program that are common to the four of them, in an attempt to reflect upon the possibility of creating bonds or building a bridge among these works in order to “engage them in a dialogue”.