Generative Grammar without Transformations
Title | Generative Grammar without Transformations PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Binkert |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2019-06-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110861526 |
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The Formal Complexity of Natural Language
Title | The Formal Complexity of Natural Language PDF eBook |
Author | W.J. Savitch |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9400934017 |
Ever since Chomsky laid the framework for a mathematically formal theory of syntax, two classes of formal models have held wide appeal. The finite state model offered simplicity. At the opposite extreme numerous very powerful models, most notable transformational grammar, offered generality. As soon as this mathematical framework was laid, devastating arguments were given by Chomsky and others indicating that the finite state model was woefully inadequate for the syntax of natural language. In response, the completely general transformational grammar model was advanced as a suitable vehicle for capturing the description of natural language syntax. While transformational grammar seems likely to be adequate to the task, many researchers have advanced the argument that it is "too adequate. " A now classic result of Peters and Ritchie shows that the model of transformational grammar given in Chomsky's Aspects [IJ is powerful indeed. So powerful as to allow it to describe any recursively enumerable set. In other words it can describe the syntax of any language that is describable by any algorithmic process whatsoever. This situation led many researchers to reasses the claim that natural languages are included in the class of transformational grammar languages. The conclu sion that many reached is that the claim is void of content, since, in their view, it says little more than that natural language syntax is doable algo rithmically and, in the framework of modern linguistics, psychology or neuroscience, that is axiomatic.
Generative Grammar Without Transformation
Title | Generative Grammar Without Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Binkert |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1984 |
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Syntactic Structures
Title | Syntactic Structures PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3112316002 |
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The Historiography of Generative Linguistics
Title | The Historiography of Generative Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | András Kertész |
Publisher | Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 2017-08-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3823300687 |
Although the past decades have seen a great diversity of approaches to the history of generative linguistics, there has been no systematic analysis of the state of the art. The aim of the book is to fill this gap. Part I provides an unbiased, balanced and impartial overview of numerous approaches to the history of generative linguistics. In addition, it evaluates the approaches thus discussed against a set of evaluation criteria. Part II demonstrates in a case study the workability of a model of plausible argumentation that goes beyond the limits of current historiographical approaches. Due to the comprehensive analysis of the state of the art, the book may be useful for graduate and undergraduate students. However, since it is also intended to enrich the historiography of linguistics in a novel way, the book may also attract the attention of both linguists interested in the history of science, and historians of science interested in linguistics.
Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Title | Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) PDF eBook |
Author | P.H. Matthews |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2014-02-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317933621 |
According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it – a generative grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set of sentences. This forms the speaker’s linguistic competence, which represents a distinct faculty of the mind, called the faculty of language. This view has been widely criticised, from many separate angles and by many different authors, including some of Chomsky’s pupils. As one of the earliest and most persistent critics, Professor Matthews is especially well placed to tie these arguments together. He concludes that Chomsky’s notion of competence finds no support within linguistics. It can be defended, if at all, only by assuming a traditional philosophy of mind. The notion of grammar should therefore be restricted to descriptive linguistics, and should not have psychological interpretations foisted on it. Peter Matthews’ book covers a variety of topics, from morphology to speech acts, from word meaning to the study of language variation, and from blending in syntax to the relation of language and culture. This wide range of subject matter is incisively handled in a style which is both elegant and economical.
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar
Title | Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2013-02-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110903849 |