A Transformational Grammar of Modern Literary Arabic

This book belongs to an era of scholarship in linguistics that is no longer in vogue. In this sense, it is a historical document of the kind of research in linguistics and Arabic that was current almost three decades ago. The book is based on Chomsky's Standard Theory as set it out in his book Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), and some of his later publications in which he proposed modifications to this theory. The book seems to be based on the author's thesis, which he finished in 1979 as the Biographical Note states. This perhaps explains why none of the references listed in the bibliography postdates 1977. If we take this date as our cut-off point, then it is clear that this book is at least two decades behind the current thinking on linguistic theory in the Chomskyan paradigm.