Paraphrase Grammars (Hardcover, 1971 ed.)

The recent rapid development of transformational grammars has incorpo rated some strong claims in the areas of semantics and co-occurrence. The earlier structuralists relied on a minimum of information about the meaning of strings of a language. They asked only if strings of sounds were different in meaning - or simply were different words or phrases. Current transfor mational grammars, on the other hand, set as their goal the production of exactly the meaningful strings of a language. Stated slightly differently, they wish to specify exactly which strings of a language can occur together (meaningfully) in a given order. The present book purports to show that transformational grammar is in dependent of the current trends in semantics. I claim that exciting and sophisticated transformational grammars are required for describing when strings of a language mean the same, that is, for describing when strings of a language are paraphrases of each other. This task can be quite naturally limited to a project of much weaker semantic claims than those which are current in transformational linguistics."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Formal Linguistics Series, 2
Release date:	December 1970
First published:	1970
Authors:	R.M. Smaby
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	145
Edition:	1971 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-90-277-0178-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	90-277-0178-4
Barcode:	9789027701787

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