Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. PRAGMATICS AND SEMANTICS: THE NATURE OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE -- 1. Transformational-Generative Grammar -- 2. Semantic Grammar and Communicative Competence -- 3. Acquisition of Lexical Paradigms -- 4. Acquisition of Grammatical Paradigms -- 5. Pragmatic Structures -- 6. Linguistic Creativity -- PART II. AN EMPIRICIST THEORY OF UTTERANCE MEANING: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 7. Phenomenological Empiricisim -- 8. An Empiricist Account of Universals -- 9. Universal Grammar -- 10. The Authority of Logical Truth -- 11. The Constitution of Novel Utterance Meanings: The Metaphorical Function -- 12. Conclusion -- References -- Index