Abstract
1.0. The aim of this paper is twofold: first it will give a tentative, systematic survey of some recent work in generafive-transformational theory of literary texts, and, second, it will try to answer a certain number of questions left open in this search for a 'generative poetics'. Especially some problems concerning the presumably semantic basis of a deductive theory of texts will be considered in a few highly speculative remarks. 1.1 The applications (now ten years old) of Chomsky's generativetransformational grammar to the study of 'poetic language' have had very important results, mainly in the field of stylistics. The wide-spread enthusiasm of linguists-studying-literature and of literary-scholars-nsinggrammar for the more adequate theoretical tools, offered by the transformational model with which the sentences of literary texts can be described, can easily be justified. Some remarks, however, may place this success in its right historical and methodological perspective:
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