[PDF] Deep Structre Surface Structure And Semantic Interpretation eBook

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027979643

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No detailed description available for "Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar".

Author : Sara Regina Murphey
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN :

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The theory of transformational grammars represents the linguists' most elaborate attempt to date to formalize the syntactic structure of English. The result of analyzing a sentence according to a transformational grammar is a so-called 'deep structure, ' which expresses various information about the constituent portions of the sentence in a treelike form. In view of the relatively high state of development of the transformational theory, it is natural to use it as the basis for the 'front end' of an English-understanding program. The system discussed in the report provides a general method of interpretation of transformationally parsed sentences for use in question-answering. It is based on a general scheme for using the information contained in the deep structures to interrogate a data base. The primary effort is aimed at handling a wide variety of complex syntactic structures, with particular concern for the problem of embedded structures. The system provides a general facility for handling syntactic sturctures, to which a user can add routines corresponding to the specific nouns, verbs, and adjectives he wants to use. The present implementation includes a vocabulary suitable for dealing with sets; the noun, verb, and adjective routines for this area of discourse constitute about 10% of the entire program.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 17,30 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002

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No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1412 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107354587

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Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Author : John A. Goldsmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136159908

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In The Ideological Structure of Linguistic Theory Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1969-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262260503

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Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account. Beginning in the mid-fifties and emanating largely form MIT, an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. Although this approach is connected to the traditional study of languages, it differs enough in its specific conclusions about the structure and in its specific conclusions about the structure of language to warrant a name, "generative grammar." Various deficiencies have been discovered in the first attempts to formulate a theory of transformational generative grammar and in the descriptive analysis of particular languages that motivated these formulations. At the same time, it has become apparent that these formulations can be extended and deepened.The major purpose of this book is to review these developments and to propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes them into account. The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of the language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.