The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
Author : N. Chomsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1975-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 030630760X
Author : N. Chomsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1975-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 030630760X
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226104362
Author : C-T James Huang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401134723
In comparative syntax a general approach has been pursued over the past decade predicated on the notion that Universal Grammar allows of open parameters, and that part of the job of linguistic theory is to specify what values these parameters may have, and how they may be set, given primary linguistic data, to determine the grammars of particu lar languages. The papers presented in this volume are also concerned with language variation understood in this way. Their goals, however, do not strictly fall under the rubric of comparative syntax, but form part of what is more properly thought of as a comparative semantics. Semantics, in its broadest sense, is concerned with how linguistic structures are associated with their truth-conditions. A comparative semantics, therefore, is concerned with whether this association can vary from language to language, and if so, what is the cause of this variation. Taking comparative semantics in this way places certain inherent limitations on the search for the sources of variability. This is because the semantic notion of truth is universal, and does not vary from language to language: Sentences either do or do not accurately characterize what they purport to describe. ! The source of semantic variability, therefore, must be somehow located in the way a language is structured.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002
No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".
Author : Jan van Voorst
Publisher :
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category : English language
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110218321
Noam Chomsky is Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. David W. Lightfoot is Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. 'Chomsky's book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is ordinarily understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalog, nor another speculative philosophy about the nature of Man and Language, but rather a rigorous explication of our intuitions about our language in terms of an overt axiom system, the theorems derivable from it, explicit results which may be compared with new data and other intuitions, all based plainly on an overt theory of the internal structure of languages; and it may well provide an opportunity for the application of explicit measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar. 'Robert B. Lees in : 'Language' 'I had already decided I wanted to be a linguist when I discovered this book. But it is unlikely that I would have stayed in the field without it. It has been the single most inspiring book on linguistics in my whole career.' HenkvanRiemsdijk.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Generative grammar
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Author : Robert May
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262631020
This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical Form. Its main assumption is that this is a level of phrase structure representation, derived by transformational operations from S-structure, and over which formal semantic interpretations are defined.The book explores Logical Form by focusing primarily on quantificational phenomena and on how their explicit syntactic representation interacts with various syntactic and semantic properties. Among the topics discussed are the interactions of wh and quantified phrases, bound variable anaphora, branching quantifiers, extraposition and multiple interrogation.Logical Form contains several technical innovations: the notion that LF-movement closely approximates "Move α," a new approach to characterizing quantifier scope, which makes central use of the notion of "government," a novel interpretation of the relation of syntactic nodes and categorical projections, and an application of path theory to the syntactic structure of Logical Form.Robert May is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Barnard College, Columbia University. Logical Form is Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 12.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110867567
In this paper,(1) I will restrict the term ""linguistic theory"" to systems of hypotheses concerning the general features of human language put forth in an attempt to account for a certain range of linguistic phenomena. I will not be concerned with systems of terminology or methods of investigation (analytic procedures). The central fact to which any significant linguistic theory must address itself is this: a mature speaker can produce a new sentence of his language on the appropriate occasion, and other speakers can understand it immediately, though it is equally new to them. Most of our li.