The lecture notes are based on the following two main texts and, of course, the discussions arising in the seminars:  

 

Chomsky, Noam (1957/2002): Syntactic Structures. 2nd Edition With an Introduction by David W. Lightfood; New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 

 

Radford, Andrew / Atkinson, Martin / Britain, David / Clashen, Harold / Spencer, Andrew (1999): Linguistics: An introduction; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

They are  intended to give an outline of the development of Generative Grammar and Universal Grammar both past and present. Lecturer: Michael Schiffmann, University of Heidelberg.