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Generative Grammar: A Meaning First Approach [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
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]

open access: greenMind, 2016
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
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Complexity and Relative Complexity in Generative Grammar

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2021
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

open access: green, 2004
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]

open access: bronzeCognitive Sciences, 2014
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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Scientific modelling in generative grammar and the dynamic turn in syntax [PDF]

open access: hybrid, 2016
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]

open access: gold, 2017
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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Review of the Book Entitled Persian Grammar based on the Autonomous Theory in Dependency Grammar [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2021
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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