ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX

Abstract

Contents: Methodological preliminaries: Generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence; theory of performance; organization of a generative grammar; justification of grammars; formal and substantive grammars; descriptive and explanatory theories; evaluation procedures; linguistic theory and language learning; generative capacity and its linguistic relevance Categories and relations in syntactic theory: Scope of the base; aspects of deep structure; illustrative fragment of the base component; types of base rules Deep structures and grammatical transformations Residual problems: Boundaries of syntax and semantics; structure of the lexicon

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0616323

Entities

People

  • Noam Chomsky

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Context Free Grammars
  • Data Processing
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematics
  • Mental Processes
  • Morphology (Linguistics)
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Numbers
  • Phonemes
  • Phrase Structure Grammars
  • Psychology
  • Syntax
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transformational Grammars

Fields of Study

  • Linguistics

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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Analytics
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.