Abstract

The aim of the paper is to explore and exemplify the most pertinent questions relating to the interconnections between historical linguistics and generative grammar, the two in various aspects being rather disparate and dissimilar approaches to the overall study of English. The major objectives attempted at will be: 1) to explore the treatment of language change from the viewpoint of generative grammar and 2) to illuminate and exemplify the contribution of historical linguistics into the contemporary linguistic treatment of English , through establishing a generative interface between Modern Standard English and one of its previous developmental stages