Abstract
The claim that linguistics should build explicit models of natural languages and put forth an explanatory theory of linguistic knowledge is shared by several contemporary approaches and cannot be taken as the hallmark of generative grammar today. If one tries to isolate its distinctive features, one is led to present a series of debates, rather than a set of theoretical assumptions. No consensus has yet been achieved concerning the stand that the model should take concerning such crucial questions as the status of the syntactic objects which the computational system manipulates, the derivational or representational nature of the grammatical system, the link between linear order and dominance relations, the psychological reality of derivations. In fact, the profound unity of the various generative approaches today lies in the common goal to develop a cognitive model of linguistic competence, aiming both at characterizing linguistic diversity as such and at unifying the study of syntax and morphology and the study of acquisition
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