GGG ja Eesti keele süntaksi uurimine
GGG and the study of Estonian syntax

Summary/Abstract: The central field of study of the Research Group for Generative Grammar (GGG) was Estonian syntax. In the group’s first works, in the mid-1960s, the method of transformation analysis was used; later, the preferred framework was generative grammar, especially Charles Fillmore’s case grammar. Among the group’s most important works was Huno rätsep’s study of verb-governed sentence patterns (1978). After the abatement of the GGG’s activity, the main center of grammar studies became the grammar group of the institute of language and literature, the core of which consisted of former GGG members. The group published the series of studies “ars Grammatica” and compiled an descriptive grammar of Estonian. in the mid-1990s, Estonian syntax studies came to be dominated by the functional-typological approach and the center for research shifted back to the University of tartu, where a new generation of syntax researchers developed under the guidance of former GGG members. In addition to studying various problems of syntax, a new comprehensive account of Estonian syntax is being compiled at the University of tartu, due to be completed in 2016.

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