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Transformational-Generative Grammar
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Transformational-Generative Grammar
The future of Generative Grammar
Tenets of Generative Grammar
Its work is the goal of describing languages systematically
GG should be descriptive and not prescriptive
The theory of grammar should make universal claims.
Grammars should be fully explicit
Many GG identify explicitness with formalization.
The knowledge that allows people to construct and understand grammatical sentence.
Why the term 'Generative'?
Grammar should be psychologically relevant
Common Formal Elements
Competence
vs.
Performance
It's necessary to account language acquisition (between knowledge & experience)
Linguistic analyses should be maximally general
The way people use language in the real world (making linguistic errors)
to capture a generalization
There are infinitely well-formed sentences in any natural language.
Extensions of what is known as “context-free (phrase structure) grammar”
Varieties of Generative Grammar
All human languages have very similar underlying structures.
Context
free-grammar
Other enhancement to CFG
Words classified into categories, based on:
- morphological properties
- distributional patterns
- meanings.
The addition of semantic component