Phrase structure composition and syntactic dependencies /
In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in comput...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Current studies in linguistics ;
38 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally restrictive operations for structure building considerably simplifies the model of grammatical competence, particularly in the components concerned with syntactic movement and locality. The empirical advantages of the resulting model, illustrated with extensive case studies of subject-raising constructions and wh-questions, point toward a conception of grammar that is sharply limited in its computational power. |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford Book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780262273060 0262273063 0585437041 9780585437040 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/5366.001.0001 |