Syntactic StructuresNoam Chomsky's first 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 understood by experts in those fields. It is not a mere reorganization of the data into a new kind of library catalogue, nor another specualtive philosophy about the nature of man and language, but rather a rigorus 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 explicity measures of simplicity to decide preference of one form over another form of grammar. |
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... sentences , and that certain other sequences are definitely non - sentences . In many intermediate cases we shall be prepared to let the grammar itself decide , when the grammar is set up in the simplest way so that it includes the clear ...
... sentences , and that certain other sequences are definitely non - sentences . In many intermediate cases we shall be prepared to let the grammar itself decide , when the grammar is set up in the simplest way so that it includes the clear ...
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... set of grammatical sentences cannot be identified with any particular corpus of utterances obtained by the linguist in his field work . Any grammar of a language will project the finite and somewhat acci- dental corpus of observed ...
... set of grammatical sentences cannot be identified with any particular corpus of utterances obtained by the linguist in his field work . Any grammar of a language will project the finite and somewhat acci- dental corpus of observed ...
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Noam Chomsky. 3 AN ELEMENTARY LINGUISTIC THEORY 3.1 Assuming the set of grammatical sentences of English to be given , we now ask what sort of device can produce this set ( equi- valently , what sort of theory gives an adequate account ...
Noam Chomsky. 3 AN ELEMENTARY LINGUISTIC THEORY 3.1 Assuming the set of grammatical sentences of English to be given , we now ask what sort of device can produce this set ( equi- valently , what sort of theory gives an adequate account ...
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
The Independence of Grammar | 13 |
An Elementary Linguistic Theory | 18 |
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