Generative Grammar: A Meaning First Approach [PDF]
The theory of language must predict the possible thought—signal (or meaning—sound or sign) pairings of a language. We argue for a Meaning First architecture of language where a thought structure is generated first.
Uli Sauerland+2 more
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Structured Propositions in a Generative Grammar [PDF]
Publisher Rights Statement: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Mind following peer review. The version of record Bryan Pickel; Structured Propositions in a Generative Grammar, Mind, , fzw074, https ...
Bryan Pickel
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Complexity and Relative Complexity in Generative Grammar
The notions of “complexity” and its antonym “simplicity” have played an important role in the history of generative grammar. However, these terms have been used in different ways. There have been discussions about whether the raw data is complex (or not),
Frederick J. Newmeyer
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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
Prefactory Note. Acknowledgments. 1. Preliminaries:. Background and Overview. Optimality. Overall Structure of the Argument. Overview of Part I. 2. Optimality in Grammar: Core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber:.
Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky
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Learning a Generative Probabilistic Grammar of Experience: A Process‐Level Model of Language Acquisition [PDF]
We introduce a set of biologically and computationally motivated design choices for modeling the learning of language, or of other types of sequential, hierarchically structured experience and behavior, and describe an implemented system that conforms to
Oren Kolodny+2 more
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The generative grammar of the brain: a critique of internally generated representations. [PDF]
Dragoi G.
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Scientific modelling in generative grammar and the dynamic turn in syntax [PDF]
In this paper, I address the issue of scientific modelling in contemporary linguistics, focusing on the generative tradition. In so doing, I identify two common varieties of linguistic idealisation, which I call determination and isolation respectively ...
Ryan M. Nefdt
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Combining transformative generative grammar and systemic functional grammar: Linguistic competence, syntax and second language acquisition [PDF]
Transformational generative grammar (TGG) and systemic functional grammar (SFG) are two of the most influential theoretical linguistic schools. Previous literature has mostly taken the two approaches as two contrastive perspectives to language.
Rong Xiao
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Grammar-constrained decoding for structured information extraction with fine-tuned generative models applied to clinical trial abstracts. [PDF]
Schmidt DM, Cimiano P.
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Review of the Book Entitled Persian Grammar based on the Autonomous Theory in Dependency Grammar [PDF]
The dependency grammar is one of the grammar formalisms that is originated according to the dependency relations of lexical elements in a sentence.
Masood Ghayoomi
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