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Our line of reasoning consists of two parts, in accordance with our problem, marked (P) and our aims (A)(a)-(c), sketched in the Preface.

In Part 1, we will examine 22 different approaches to the historiographyhistoriography of generative linguistics which offer alternative solutions to the problem in (P). We do not wish to analyze and evaluate the achievements of generative linguistics; instead, we will focus on how historiographers of linguistics analyze and evaluate its historyhistory. Accordingly, the first part of the book is of a metahistoriographicalmetahistoriographical nature.

Within this part, in Chapter 2 – following aim (A)(a) mentioned in the Preface – we will reconstruct the alternative solutions to (P) as proposed in the relevant literature, and thereby highlight their diversity. In order to meet the philological requirements of historiographyhistoriography, we will document our claims by making extensive use of quotations and citations.

As the next step in our reasoning – in line with aim (A)(b) –, in Chapter 3 we will give a metahistoriographicalmetahistoriographical evaluation of the historiographicalhistoriography approaches surveyed in Chapter 2. We will examine to what extent and in what way they meet a set of criteria that historiographical approaches are expected to meet.

Part 2 of the monograph contributes to the field of historiographyhistoriography: in accordance with aim (A)(c), we will outline a possible novel approach to the historiography of generative linguistics. Within Part 2, Chapter 4 proposes a historiographical extension of Kertész &Kertész, András RákosiRákosi, Csilla’s (2012) p-modelmodelp- of linguistic theorizing.

Chapter 5 is a case study, with which we wish to illustrate that the historiographicalhistoriography application of this model conforms to the criteria discussed in Chapter 3.

Chapter 6 tackles the open questions which have to be faced by any approach to the historiographyhistoriography of generative linguistics, and consequently, by our own as well, the detailed discussion of which, however, would go beyond the scope of the book.

Finally, in Chapter 7 we will summarize our major findings.

Before we take the first step of the investigation we have just sketched out, let us give a brief overview of KuhnKuhn, Thomas S.’s ideas about scientificscientific revolutionrevolutionscientifics, which constitute the main point of departure for approaches to the historiographyhistoriography of generative linguistics, as well as the present monograph.