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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"generative grammar"”.
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Some aspects of presupposition in generative grammar.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics. Thesis. 1973. Ph.D.
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The theory of markedness in generative grammar.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics.
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Explanation in Linguistics: A Critique of Generative Grammar
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A generative grammar for 2D manufacturing of 3D objects
… examine these assumptions and the potential of a generative grammar to enable an alternative dialogue between design and construction. What happens when the generative grammar for design and construction are one and the same? In this thesis I present a generative grammar for 2-dimensional …
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Is linguistics a part of psychology?
Noam Chomsky, the founding father of generative grammar and the instigator of some of its core research programs, claims that linguistics is a part of psychology, concerned with a class of cognitive structures employed in speaking and understanding. In a recent book, Ignorance of Language, Michael …
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Lama phonology and morphology
… and particularly within the framework of generative grammar.
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The representation and distribution of conjunctions in selected Sepedi home language textbooks : a corpus-based Investigation
… was grounded in Noam Chomsky's seminal work on generative grammar. Generative grammar is conceived as a structured system of statements and rules aimed at describing and defining grammatically correct utterances within a language, while excluding those that are not well-formed. The findings …
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Composicionalidade semântica em Libras: fronteiras e encaixes
… marks. The theory we based our analysis was the generative grammar in the version of the Distributed Morphology, and, more specifically, we accept the idea of Gaurav Mathur according to which in the architecture of the grammar the signs iconicity elapses of the interface between the spatial …
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Word order and information structure in Romeyka: A syntax and semantics interface account of order in a minimalist system
… in regard to the syntax and semantics interface. Generative Grammar is the study of linguistic capacity as a component of human cognition. As such, Generative Grammar has made significant progress in identifying some of the computational mechanisms that distinguish man from animals; the basic …
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Imaging neural correlates of syntactic complexity in a naturalistic context
… that endorses the fundamental premise of generative grammar, that the study of language is in essence, the study of the mind. We use functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activation while subjects listen to short narratives. The texts have been written so as to …
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CALaMo: a Construsctionist perspective on the Analysis of linguistic behaviour of Language Models
… extent to which such networks can actually learn grammar remains an object of investigation, and experimental results are often inconclusive. Notably, the mainstream evaluation framework in which NLMs are tested seems largely based on Generative Grammar and nativist principles, and a shared …
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Fundamentos teoricos, desarrollo y proyecciones actuales de la linguistica del texto
… linguistics, tagmemics, E. Coseriu, and Generative Grammar. In the second part, "El desarrollo de la linguistica del texto", we have defined the limits of text linguistics by means of a terminological revision of the terms texto and discurso . Following that, our line of research has …
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Die probleem van die bereik van die ontkenning met spesiale verwysing na Afrikaans
… the formulation of the Katz-Postal Hypothesis Generative linguists have shown great interest in logical elements like quantifiers and negatives. Differences in the scope of these elements, which correspond to surface position, provide numerous counter examples to the thesis that all semantic …
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A conceptual semantics account of negative polarity licensing: A study of the any expression.
This thesis, in the spirit of work done in generative grammar, focuses its attention on the crucial link between a theory of meaning and a theory of understanding and how this link may be expressed in the form of a linguistic theory for it to enjoy psychological plausibility. The current approach …
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The Limits of Philosophy: Plato's Sophist and Statesman
… recourse to Kantian meta-philosophy, Chomsky's generative grammar and Schoenberg's theory of harmony. Rudolph Carnap's distinction between questions internal and external to a scientific framework is the means of addressing this universal problem. Questions about the definition of an expertise …
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Indexical Expressions: Syntax and Context
… indexical expressions, within the framework of generative grammar, and proposes a new model of the formal context for natural language.</p> <p>The central argument against prior accounts of indexicals is that such theories draw the distinction between the first and second person pronouns versus …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
… for speaker competence in relation to grammar. The question is whether or not the rules of generative grammar need to be understood or merely respected at some level by a competent speaker. Are the rules, or principles, governing poetic method accessible to propositional formulation, or …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
… for speaker competence in relation to grammar. The question is whether or not the rules of generative grammar need to be understood or merely respected at some level by a competent speaker. Are the rules, or principles, governing poetic method accessible to propositional formulation, or …
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Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek sign language
… as defined within the framework of generative grammar, is used for the analysis of negation scope. Within this framework a syntactic analysis of the negative particle and the negation head movement is proposed. The NEG-criterion provides an empirically adequate theory of the scope of …
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The Realisation of syntactic principles in non-standard Afrikaans: the correspondence of Jan Jonker Afrikaner (1820-1889)
… inspired by the concepts put forward in Generative Grammar. This has precipitated an exciting linguistic comparison of contemporary Afrikaans grammar with the diachronic material. This dissertation challenges the idea that the Khoesan Languages were of no or little influence in the …
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