Frontmatter -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- Biographical Sketches -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: Approaches to syntax -- 2. Cognitive Grammar -- 3. Construction Grammar -- 4. Simpler Syntax -- 5. Lexical Functional Grammar -- 6. The Decathlon Model -- 7. The Stupendous Success of the Minimalist Program -- 8. The Parallel Architecture -- 9. Usage-based Grammar -- 10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax -- 11. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to syntax -- 12. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- 13. Dependency Grammar -- 14. Combinatory Categorial Grammar -- Part II: Metatheoretical foundations -- 15. Syntactic knowledge and intersubjectivity -- 16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics -- 17. The uncertainty of syntactic theorizing -- 18. The multiparadigmatic structure of science and generative grammar -- 19. The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria -- 20. The research programme of Chomskyan linguistics -- 21. Conclusions: On the use of the comparison of syntactic theories -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index