This study deals with syntactic structure both in the board sense(as opposed to semantics)and the narrow sense(as opposed to phonemics and morphology). It forms part of an attempt to construct a formalized general theory of linguistic structure and to explore the foundations of such a theory.

Robert C. Solomon, Not Passion's Slave: Emotions and Choice

The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is
 an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in
 a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and
elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents
a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as
 evaluative judgments. The second proposes an "existentialist" perspective in
 which he defends the idea that, as we are responsible for our emotions.
Indeed, sometimes it even makes sense to say that we "choose" them.