In this paper we present a formalization of some ideas from Chomsky (1995) in the framework of multimodal type logical grammar (e.g., Moortgat (1996) and refs). This project is in many respects rather straightforward, but makes use of aspects of the type logical machinery which are generally

Many scholars view transformational grammar as an attempt to represent the structure of linguistic knowledge in the mind and seek to apply transformational descriptions of languages to the development of second language teaching materials. It will be claimed in this paper that it is a mistake

Abstract. This article focuses on the use of both shape grammar and space syntax as tools to identify and encode the principles and rules behind the adaptation of existing houses to new requirements. The idea is to use such rules as part of a transformation grammar-based methodology

Although Minimalism is often referred to as a program, it is now sufficiently developed to be an indisputable part of the discussion in theoretical syntax and even the subject of introductory manuals. The four books reviewed in this article each reflect the place Minimalism now holds in linguistic theory. They can be divided into two groups, depending on the intended readership. Radford’s and Ouhalla’s volumes are introductions to theoretical syntax and can be read with no linguistic background. The two other books are much more technical and address more advanced readers. Each group can be further subdivided according to whether Minimalism is presented from an historical perspective or discussed ‘in its own right’. I Radford (1997) and Ouhalla (1999) I will start by reviewing the two introductory textbooks to syntactic theory. Radford’s volume (and its abridged version, to which I

ABSTRACT. Various restrictions on transformational grammars have been investigated in order to reduce their generative power from recursively enumerable languages to recursive languages. It will be shown that any restriction on transformational grammars defining a recursively enumerable subset

The use of augmented transition network grammars for the analysis of natural language sentences is described. Structure-building actions associated with the arcs of the grammar network allow for the reordering, restructuring, and copying of constituents necessary to produce deep

This paper focuses on the transformation of grammar checking technology into a learning environment for second language writing. Our starting point is a grammar checker for Swedish, called Granska. Two studies have been conducted aimed at exploring the use of computer support for writing

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In the recent development of the theory of transformational grammar

In this paper we describe a new technique for parsing free text: a transformational grammar is automatically learned that is capable of accurately parsing text into binary-branching syntactic trees with nonterminals unlabelled. The algorithm works by beginning in a very naive state of knowledge