Generative grammar

This book is a summary of major works done on generative grammar (Standard Model). It further develops a minimalist view of linguistic interface between (universal) Logical Form and (language specific) Phonetic Form as suggested in the works of famous linguists, logicians and philosophers of the present and the past, such as Noam Chomsky, Richard Kayne, Boole, Gazdar, McCarthy, Montague, Gottlob Frege and Aristotle to mention but a few.

The author holds a BA in American Civilization (Fez 1978), an MA in French linguistics (York 1982) and a PhD in Arabic linguistics (Dublin 1990). He has produced many publications on different subjects and has given talks and lectures in many countries. He spent one academic year in the Linguistic Department of the University of Washington, in which colleagues have much appreciated the diversity of his competences. "Dr. Ben Rochd is qualified to teach Arabic and many areas of linguistics: especially introduction to linguistics, syntax and history of linguistics. I met Dr. Ben Rochd personally and find him very knowledgeable, articulate and totally fluent in English." (Fritz. Newmeyer)