Bücher der Reihe Formal Linguistics Series

These separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. This time existing tradition is treated as a body - without, I hope, being seriously distorting - and one small portion of its working assumptions is examined.

I claim that exciting and sophisticated transformational grammars are required for describing when strings of a language mean the same, that is, for describing when strings of a language are paraphrases of each other.