Editing Transformational grammar (section)

==Historical context==

Chomsky developed transformational grammar in the late 1950s, drawing on older work including that of the [[structuralist linguistics|structuralists]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Newmeyer, Frederick J.|author-link=Frederick Newmeyer|title=Linguistic Theory in America|publisher=Academic Press|year=1986|edition=Second|at=Chapter 2,Chapter3}}</ref><ref name ="WasowHandbook">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Generative Grammar|encyclopedia=The Handbook of Linguistics|year=2003|last=Wasow|first=Thomas|author-link=Tom Wasow|editor-last1=Aronoff|editor-first1=Mark|editor-last2=Ress-Miller|editor-first2=Janie|publisher= Blackwell|url=https://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/WWW_Content/9780631204978/12.pdf|doi=10.1002/9780470756409.ch12}}</ref> Its central ideas are maintained to varying degrees in present-day approaches to syntax such as [[Minimalist program|Minimalism]], while others such as [[Combinatory categorial grammar]] are distinctly non-transformational.<ref name="Partee3">{{cite book |last=Partee |first=Barbara|author-link=Barbara Partee |title=The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |publisher=BIYCLC |year=2011 |volume=6 |pages=1–52 |chapter=Formal Semantics: Origins, Issues, Early Impact |doi=10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1580}}</ref>