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    Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a...
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  • Syntax (redirect from Syntactic structure)
    favor of the verb as the root of all structure, see Tesnière (1969:103–105). Chomsky, Noam (1957). Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton. p. 15. Chomsky...
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  • known as syntactic categories, including both lexical categories (parts of speech) and phrasal categories. A grammar that uses phrase structure rules is...
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  • needed] The term parse forest refers to the collection of all possible syntactic structures, known as parse trees, that can represent the ambiguous sentence's...
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  • (TGG), a new kind of syntactic theory that he had introduced in the 1950s with the publication of his first book, Syntactic Structures. Aspects is widely...
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  • Evidence can be seen with both Japanese and English examples. Japanese syntactic structures illustrate that there are requirements for the locality of these...
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    emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures, which played a major role in remodeling the study of language. From...
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  • semantic structure cross-linguistically the relationship of lexical meaning to sentence meaning and syntax. Lexical units, also referred to as syntactic atoms...
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  • Paul. Borsley, R. 1991. Syntactic theory: A unified approach. London: Edward Arnold. Chomsky, Noam 1957. Syntactic structures. The Hague/Paris: Mouton...
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  • parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories. In phrase structure grammars, the phrasal categories (e.g. noun phrase, verb...
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  • clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their syntactic structure...
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  • innate/universal structures and the structures of specific languages. Scholar Michael Tomasello has challenged Chomsky's theory of innate syntactic knowledge...
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  • Pearson. pp. 310–311. ISBN 0-205-45769-X. Chomsky, Noam (1957), Syntactic Structures, The Hague/Paris: Mouton, ISBN 978-3-11-021832-9 Chomsky, Noam (1964)...
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  • In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent structure...
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    Language (section Structure)
    and functionalist frameworks that propose theories for describing syntactic structures, based on different assumptions about what language is and how it...
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  • X-bar theory (category Syntactic relationships)
    Figure 5 suggests that syntactic structures are derived in a bottom-up fashion under the X-bar theory. More specifically, the structures are derived via the...
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  • children learn word meanings by recognizing syntactic categories (such as nouns, adjectives, etc.) and the structure of their language. It is proposed that...
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  • Syntactic parsing is the automatic analysis of syntactic structure of natural language, especially syntactic relations (in dependency grammar) and labelling...
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    ideas sleep furiously was composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically well-formed, but...
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    indicates the existence of unifying syntactic structures across all natural languages. For instance, sentence structures of English and Japanese only appear...
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  • In the field of linguistics, syntactic change is change in the syntactic structure of a natural language. If one regards a language as vocabulary within...
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  • Generative syntax. The basic assumption of Cartographic syntax is that syntactic structures are built according to the same patterns in all languages of the...
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    Abstract syntax tree (category Trees (data structures))
    data structure used in computer science to represent the structure of a program or code snippet. It is a tree representation of the abstract syntactic structure...
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  • Togeby. The practice is now widespread. Most tree structures employed to represent the syntactic structure of sentences are products of some form of IC-analysis...
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  • was a research program in theoretical linguistics which held that syntactic structures are computed on the basis of meanings rather than the other way around...
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    an arrow" as an example of the difficulty of handling ambiguous syntactic structures as early as 1963, although his formal publications with Susumu Kuno...
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  • "Introduction to the second edition of Syntactic Structures by Noam Chomsky". In Lightfoot, David W. (ed.). Syntactic Structures (second ed.). Berlin: Mouton de...
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  • multiple theoretical approaches to the position and structure of gender in syntactic structures. There are three main ways by which natural languages...
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  • Phrase (category Syntactic categories)
    theoretical linguistics, phrases are often analyzed as units of syntactic structure such as a constituent. There is a difference between the common use...
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  • Syntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities. Movement was first postulated by structuralist linguists who...
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