Questions tagged [chomsky]
An American linguist who founded the field of Generative Linguistics.
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Did Chomsky originate the term "rewrite rule"?
The earliest mention of the term "rewrite rule" that I am able to find - in the context of phrase structure grammars - is in Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures" (1957).
Did he originate the term?
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Understanding Symbols in Chomsky's *Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory*
I've been reading Chomsky's The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, and have come up rather suddenly against a stumbling block. On page 133, he uses without explanation some notation that's ...
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What limitations of generative grammar was Lakoff referring to?
In his keynote address in 2015, George Lakoff said the following (at 22:10)
The whole idea of generative grammar fell apart. There were things that you could not do with it. Even if it was ...
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Kayne on Conjunctions and Chomsky's Labelling Algorithm
I'm reading on coordination structures in relation to Chomsky's proposal of the Labelling Algorithm and stumbled upon Kayne (1994) The Antisymmetry of Syntax. In it, Kayne takes the view that ...
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Where can I find the mentioned More than one Method article?
Chomsky mentions an article that I have never taken a look at in his talk at the University of Arizona "What is Special About Language?".
I've seen "Without Social Context?" but I've never seen the ...
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A parser for grammars with movement
I'm trying to figure out how the parser algorithm of Harkema 2000 works. It is a bottom-up parser that uses an agenda-driven, chart-based deduction procedure, but what is not clear to me is in what ...
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Abandoning (conventional) lexical class
I am curious to know more about approaches to linguistics that aren’t centrally based on central word classes like nouns, verbs, etc. Instead of taking them as important categories, there could ...
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Why would French fit science, and English fit literature?
I happened upon this on r/asklinguistics that, being 9 months old, has time-barred comments. I've a shade rectified some mistakes and rewritten it.
Noam Chomsky, in some interview, said that ...
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Did Chomsky made the first generalization of coordination?
If not then who?
And maybe someone can suggest a good book of history of English linguistics? Can't find myself.
Thanks!
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Questions on Chomsky's "Syntactic structures" #1
This would be my first series of questions on this book (Second ed).
Chomsky warns that several answers to the question "On what basis do we actually go about separating grammatical and ungrammatical ...
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Did Chomsky adress Multiword Expressions?
I am not aware of a discussion/definition of multi word expressions by Chomsky? As there exist plethora of "synonyms" (to keep it easy lets state they are synonyms) including compounds, frozen ...