This book is a study in universal grammar. It attempts to find a set of constraints which limits the applicability of syntactic transformations of two types; rules called chopping rules," which reorder some part of sentence, and rules of "influence." The major theoretical notion that is developed is that of islands; autonomous domains of the tree structures that underlie sentences. While the book is primarily an investigation within the subfields of generative syntax, it should also be of interest to cognitive scientists, philosophers of language, and social scientists.
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The past decade of research on transformational grammar has substantiated amply, to my mind, the claim that the optimal framework for the description of syntactic facts is a set of rules, of two types: 1. context-free phrase structure rules, which generate an infinite set of highly abstract formal objects, underlying (or deep) phrase markers; and 2. grammatical transformations, which map underlying phrase markers onto an infinite set of objects of roughly the same formal character, superficial (or surface) phrase-markers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government prescribes the height, chopping rules, downward bounding, maximal strip, upward bounding, sentential nouns, derived constituent structure, mailed tomorrow, reordering transformations, downward bounded, whose head noun, relative clause formation, simplex sentence, scrambling rule, syntactic idioms, been extraposed, node deletion, structural index, robbery yesterday, action nominalizations, cooked yesterday, extraposed clause, appositive clauses, pied piping, questioned element Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Particle Movement, Conjunction Reduction, Coordinate Structure Constraint, Left Branch Condition, Indefinite Incorporation, Left Dislocation, Sentential Subject Constraint, George Lakoff, Conjunct Movement, Summary of Section, Adverb Preposing, Negative Incorporation, Dative Rule, Murk Street, Right Dislocation, Der Hund, Finnish Nominative Introduction, Adjective Shift Rule, Aunt Priscilla, Chairman Mao, King Kong New!
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The past decade of research on transformational grammar has substantiated amply, to my mind, the claim that the optimal framework for the description of syntactic facts is a set of rules, of two types: 1. context-free phrase structure rules, which generate an infinite set of highly abstract formal objects, underlying (or deep) phrase markers; and 2. grammatical transformations, which map underlying phrase markers onto an infinite set of objects of roughly the same formal character, superficial (or surface) phrase-markers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government prescribes the height, chopping rules, downward bounding, maximal strip, upward bounding, sentential nouns, derived constituent structure, mailed tomorrow, reordering transformations, downward bounded, whose head noun, relative clause formation, simplex sentence, scrambling rule, syntactic idioms, been extraposed, node deletion, structural index, robbery yesterday, action nominalizations, cooked yesterday, extraposed clause, appositive clauses, pied piping, questioned element Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Particle Movement, Conjunction Reduction, Coordinate Structure Constraint, Left Branch Condition, Indefinite Incorporation, Left Dislocation, Sentential Subject Constraint, George Lakoff, Conjunct Movement, Summary of Section, Adverb Preposing, Negative Incorporation, Dative Rule, Murk Street, Right Dislocation, Der Hund, Finnish Nominative Introduction, Adjective Shift Rule, Aunt Priscilla, Chairman Mao, King Kong New!
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- Syntactic Structures (2nd Edition) by Noam Chomsky in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling (Bradford Book Series) by Livia Polanyi in Front Matter
- Syntax and Semantics by John P. Kimball in Back Matter
- The Imagination of Reality: Essays in Southeast Asian Coherence Systems (Language and Being) by Abram Yengoyan in Front Matter
- Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Janua Linguar by Noam Chomsky on page 18
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