Grice and Chomsky on logical form

J, in commentary to "Noam's my man":

"IMHE his theory of UG was not completely worked out--and Chomsky may have overemphasized "innateness". Languages (at least western ones Chomsky worked with) may reveal phrase structure, and syntactical complexity--but the "deep structure" was a bit mysterious."

Indeed. I tend to think of the deep structure as what Chomsky will later call (I think) the ILF -- interpreted logical form. Grice uses the notion of 'logical form' for sure but we are never too sure what he means by that. I take it to mean, in Grice's case, a wff in Principia, say.

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