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Papers on Syntax (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
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Papers on Syntax (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 14
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The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of
syntax from structural linguistics through transformational
linguistics to operator gram mar. These three are not opposing
views or independent assumptions about language. Rather, they are
successive stages of investigation into the word combinations which
constitue the sentences of a language in contrast to those which do
not. Throughout, the goal has been to find the systemati cities of
these combinations, and then to obtain each sentence in a uniform
way from its parts. In structural analysis, the parts were words
(simple or complex, belonging to particular classes) or particular
sequences of these. In transformational analysis, it is found that
the parts of a sentence are elementary sentences, whose parts in
turn are simple words of particular classes. The relation between
these two analyses is seen in the existence of an intermediate
stage between the two, presented in paper 4, From Morpheme to
Utterance. A further intermediate stage is presented in the
writer's String Analysis of Sentence Structure, Papers on Formal
Linguistics I, Mouton, The Hague 1962 (though it was developed
after transformations, as a syntactic rep resentation for
computational analysis). Generalization of both of these analyses
leads to operator grammar, in which each sentence is derived in a
uniform way as a partial ordering of the originally simple words
which enter into it: Each step (least upper bound) of the partial
ordering (of a word requiring another) forms a sentence which is a
component of the sentence being analyzed."
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