The concept of strong generative capacity (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early 1960s in order to characterize descriptive capa... » 

The concept of strong generative capacity (SGC) of a linguistic formalism was introduced by Chomsky in the early 1960s in order to characterize descriptive capacity. This book provides a characterization of SGC, defining it as the model theoretic semantics of linguistic formalism. «