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Anderson, John M. "Structuralism and Autonomy: From Saussure to Chomsky." Historiographia Linguistica International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences 32, no. 1-2 (2005): 117–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.32.1-2.06and.

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Structuralism sought to introduce various kinds of autonomy into the study of language, including the autonomy of that study itself. The basis for this was the insistence on categorial autonomy, whereby categories are identified language-internally (whether in a particular language or in language generally). In relation to phonology, categorial autonomy has generally been tempered by grounding: the categories correlate (at least prototypically) with substance, phonetic properties. This is manifested in the idea of ‘natural classes’ in generative phonology, for instance. Usually, however, and p
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Anderson, John M. "Structuralism and Autonomy." Historiographia Linguistica 32, no. 1-2 (2005): 117–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.32.2.06and.

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Summary Structuralism sought to introduce various kinds of autonomy into the study of language, including the autonomy of that study itself. The basis for this was the insistence on categorial autonomy, whereby categories are identified language-internally (whether in a particular language or in language generally). In relation to phonology, categorial autonomy has generally been tempered by grounding: the categories correlate (at least prototypically) with substance, phonetic properties. This is manifested in the idea of ‘natural classes’ in generative phonology, for instance. Usually, howeve
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Adisa, Akinkorede Somana, Mariam Anana, and Gift Ngozi Okata. "Linguistic Turns in Syntax: Students' Attitude towards Chomskyian Approach." Gradival Journal 62, no. 08 (2023): 71–89. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8311041.

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<strong>Abstract</strong> Linguistic or discursive turns are the innovative changes in relation to language and philosophy; they focus mainly on the linguistic landmarks and remarkable changes that leave indelible marks in linguistic circle and other humanities in relation to language, its uses and the society at large. Flourished in the Western Philosophy of the 20th century, linguistic turns spun through all fields of human language, philosophy and politics. The dynamic turns at the syntactic, semantics, phonological, morphological and at all levels of human language, their uses and interact
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Newmeyer, Frederick J. "Competence vs. performance; theoretical vs. applied." Historiographia Linguistica 17, no. 1-2 (1990): 167–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.17.1-2.13new.

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Summary The past 30 years have seen marked shifts in the generative grammarians’ view of the nature of linguistic competence. The rule-oriented period of early Transformational Grammar, which was ushered in by the publication of Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures in 1957, gave way a decade later to the principle-oriented period of Generative Semantics. By the mid-1970s, the rule-oriented Lexicalist framework had replaced Generative Semantics. Since around 1981, the principle-oriented Principles &amp; Parameters approach is the one to which a majority of generative syntacticians hold allegiance. Ea
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Lightfoot, David. "Problems with variable properties in syntax." Cadernos de Linguística 2, no. 1 (2021): 01–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id306.

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Like those birds born to chirp, humans are born to parse; children are predisposed to assign linguistic structures to the amorphous externalization of the thoughts that we encounter. This yields a view of variable properties quite different from one based on parameters defined at Universal Grammar (UG). Our approach to language acquisition makes two contributions to Minimalist thinking. First, in accordance with general Minimalist goals, we minimize the pre-wired components of internal languages, dispensing with three separate, central entities: parameters, an evaluation metric for rating the
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McCawley, James D. "Syntactic concepts and terminology in mid-20th century American Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 26, no. 3 (1999): 407–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.26.3.13mcc.

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Summary This paper deals with the notions and terminology that figure in the syntactic works of Bloomfield, Fries, Hockett, Gleason, and early Chomsky. Notwithstanding Bloomfield’s commitment to constituent structure and his profound influence on syntactic research in the United States, constituency had a surprisingly peripheral role in such works as Fries (1952) “Immediate constituents” (is the last of its syntactic chapters) and notions of dependency structure a much more central role. Many false generalizations by descriptivists (e.g., treatments of Therer-insertion as inversion) result fro
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Håkansson, David. "Null referential subjects in the history of Swedish." Journal of Historical Linguistics 3, no. 2 (2013): 155–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.3.2.01hak.

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This article is concerned with null referential subjects in Old Swedish (ca. 1225–1526), and addresses the problem of why the scope for such subjects has been reduced during the history of Swedish. Within diachronic syntax it has been a common assumption that syntactic change is caused by changes in morphology. However, this study shows that deflexion only to a limited extent can explain the loss of null referential subjects in Old Swedish, since the most striking change in their use seems to take place during Early Old Swedish (ca. 1225–1375) before the loss of person agreement: whereas refer
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Vassilev, Simeon. "Randy Harris’ Linguistic Shakespeareanism The linguistic war for Chomsky's theoretical cloud." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 53 (October 31, 2022): 177–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/xwha2957.

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“Randy Harris has done a remarkable service to the intellectual world.” This is one of many positive reviews of Prof. Harris's work. Randy Allen Harris’ [1] Linguistic Wars. The book appeared in 1993 and even then challenged the academic world and theoretical linguistics, more precisely one of its branches, Noam Chomsky's generative grammar of the second half of the last century, which is an attempt to explain the concept of “human language”. “Randy Harris’ Linguistic Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle for Deep Structure [2] has been given new life with its updated 2021 edition. [3] It not
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Bourouba, Karima. "Die Generative Grammatik." Traduction et Langues 15, no. 2 (2016): 172–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.52919/translang.v15i2.685.

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Generative Grammar&#x0D; In this paper, the current version of generative syntax is treated in its various branches. Thereby, we try to explain the most important concepts of Chomsky like defining "competence", "performance", "surface structure" and "deep structure", then theories like "the standard theory" which introduces the syntax and "the X -Bar-Theory" will be discussed. All syntactic structures of all natural languages may be subject to common construction principles, can be set up parallel to previous generalizations of several rules. Furthermore, we will present the elucidation of gen
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Grohmann, Kleanthes K., and Liliane Haegeman. "Elements of Grammar: Handbook of Generative Syntax." Language 75, no. 2 (1999): 386. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417284.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "History of linguistics, syntax, Generative Grammar"

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Hwang, Kyu-Hong. "Nominative and default case checking in minimalist syntax /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8401.

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GRECO, CIRO. "Subjects and arguments in a-syntax." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/50065.

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In this essay, I will examine some murky questions concerning the theory of A’-movement in Italian. I will focus on two main empirical problems: the behaviour of Criterial Subjects (Rizzi 2006) and the syntax of multiple wh-questions in Italian. Both these domain of inquiry pose some questions about the restrictions that A’-movement has to respect and the consequences that these restrictions have on the superficial form of languages. The aim of this study is to show that many idiosyncratic properties concerning these two empirical domains can be explained by a rather simple theory of syntactic
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Botha, Morne. "Die interne struktuur van die komplementeerdersisteem in Afrikaans." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2114.

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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>This study focuses on the internal structure of the CP in Afrikaans. Rizzi’s (1997) Split-CP Hypothesis serves as the starting-point; however, careful consideration is also given to the more recent proposals of Beninca’ and Poletto (2004). The aim of the study is to determine whether the proposals of Rizzi (1997) and Beninca’ and Poletto (2004) provide an adequate framework for the description of the CP-domain in Afrikaans. The study is presented within the theoretical framework of Minimalist Syntax. Specific adaptations t
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Cavalcante, Silvia Regina de Oliveira. "O uso de se com infinito na historia do portugues : do portugues classico ao portugues europeu e brasileiro modernos." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270522.

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Orientador: Charlotte Marie Chambelland Galves<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T20:46:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cavalcante_SilviaReginadeOliveira.pdf: 705251 bytes, checksum: 03b5546f8db580f0ad6dbcc37df82172 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: A análise sincrônica da variação 0 j se com infinitivo em amostras de fala (NurcjRJ e Português Fundamental) e de escrita (jornais) do Português Brasileiro (PB) e do Português Europeu (PE) revela uma diferença no percentual do uso de se com
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Teixeira, de Sousa Lílian 1980. "Sintaxe e interpretação de negativas sentenciais no português brasileiro = Syntax and interpretation of sentential negation in Brazilian Portuguese." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/268918.

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Orientador: Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T04:51:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeixeiradeSousa_Lilian_D.pdf: 3506329 bytes, checksum: e5635d7c31b15e173507503856816bd4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: A negação sentencial no Português Brasileiro (PB) pode ser realizada através de três tipos diferentes de estruturas considerando o número e a posição de partículas negativas: [Neg V], [Neg V Não] e [V Não]. Essa distribuição é bastante rara nas línguas na
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Brown, Jessica M. M. "Heads and adjuncts : an experimental study of subextraction from participials and coordination in English, German and Norwegian." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/268101.

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In recent years, attempts to simplify the grammatical mechanisms used in syntax have led to proposals to reduce the relationships between elements in a sentence to relations between heads and complements, doing away with free adjunction. For the analysis of modifying relations one consequence has been the rise of analyses that use the properties of selecting heads to stipulate unexpected syntactic behaviour, such as the use of light verbs to derive transparency in complex verb constructions. This thesis shows that such accounts are empirically inadequate and argues that the relationship betwee
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Toyota, Junichi. "Diachronic change in the English passive /." Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780230553453.

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Riolfi, Alessandro. "A history of the concept of parameter in Generative Grammar." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/962722.

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Questa tesi traccia la storia del concetto di parametro in Grammatica Generativa a partire dai primi sviluppi del modello a Principi e Parametri negli ultimi anni Settanta fino all’avvento del programma Minimalista (Minimalist Program, MP), esaminando il modo nel quale questa nozione è stata implementata sia durante che successivamente a questa transizione. L’analisi oggetto di questa tesi si sviluppa a partire dalla sistematizzazione della cosiddetta “teoria standard” della Grammatica Generativa, avvenuta in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), fino agli ultimi sviluppi del MP. Il Capitolo
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Ademola-Adeoye, Feyisayo Fehintola. "A cross-linguistic analysis of finite rasing constructions." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/4667.

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This thesis provides and discusses a comprehensive collection of empirical data that show that many languages of the world manifest long A-movement of the subjects of embedded finite clauses to the subject position (Hyperraising) or object position (Hyper-ECM) of the main clause. The main theoretical claim of the thesis is that all these instances of long A-movement leave behind resumptive pronouns and should therefore be analysed on a par with related Copy Raising and Copy ECM constructions. My thesis therefore demonstrates that resumption is not restricted to Abar movement contexts, but is a
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Louw, Frederik Wilhelm. "Scrambling in Afrikaans." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9107.

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‘Scrambling’ languages allow arguments in a given sentence to be ordered in a variety of ways while leaving the grammatical roles of these arguments unchanged. West Germanic languages like German, Dutch, Yiddish, and West Flemish exhibit, to different extents, scrambling properties (Haider, 2006; Grewendorf, 2005; De Hoop, 2003). One well established assumption is that a prerequisite for scrambling is a rich (overt) case morphology: Grammatical relations need to be overtly marked on arguments in order for them to freely permute (Haider, 2006; Mahajan, 2003). Afrikaans, like other West Germanic
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Books on the topic "History of linguistics, syntax, Generative Grammar"

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Ūrāghī, Muḥammad. al- Wasāʾiṭ al-lughawīyah. Dār al-Amān, 2001.

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Ūrāghī, Muḥammad. al-Wasāʼiṭ al-lughawīyah. Dār al-Amān, 2001.

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Robert, Freidin, and Lasnik Howard, eds. Syntax: Critical concepts in linguistics. Routledge, 2006.

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Sadler, Louisa. Welsh syntax: A government-binding approach. Croom Helm, 1988.

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Guglielmo, Cinque, and Giusti Giuliana, eds. Advances in Roumanian linguistics. J. Benjamins, 1995.

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Longobardi, Giuseppe. Symmetry principles in the theory of syntax. UNIPRESS, 1988.

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Anagnostopoulou, Elena. The syntax of ditransitives: Evidence from clitics. M. de Gruyter, 2003.

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Trần, Ngọc Ninh. Cơ-cấu Việt-ngữ. 2nd ed. Viện Việt học, 2007.

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Egerland, Verner. The syntax of past participles: A generative study of nonfinite constructions in ancient and modern Italian. Lund University Press, 1996.

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Trà̂n, Ngọc Ninh. Cơ-cấu Việt-ngữ. 2-ге вид. Viện Việt-học, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "History of linguistics, syntax, Generative Grammar"

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Herschensohn, Julia, and Deborah Arteaga. "Methods and approaches in second language research of L2 French syntax." In Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1075/rmal.9.07her.

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Abstract This chapter evaluates methodological inquiries to L2 acquisition (L2A) of French syntax and approaches used to carry them out. Over four decades, a range of theoretical approaches to L2 French syntax have prevailed in North America, Asia and Europe. For example, the generative or Universal Grammar (UG) perspective maintains that learning entails elaboration of an L2 grammar determined by universal principles and L1 influence. Functionalist approaches take a more wholistic perspective in situating syntax within the sociocultural context, examining both its interface with pragmatics an
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Mocci, Davide. "Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds." In Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sihols.133.10moc.

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In this study I show that the internal order of Sanskrit Noun-Noun endocentric compounds cannot be captured by means of the notion ‘head’, defined in semantic or morphological terms (§§1–2). Next, I outline the strategy devised by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini (4th century B.C.) to handle the internal order of Sanskrit compounds (§ 3). Finally, I argue that the notion relevant for determining the internal order of Noun-Noun endocentric compounds in Sanskrit can be identified by combining Pāṇini’s intuitions with the formalism developed within generative grammar (§ 4). In this way, this study
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Nefdt, Ryan M. "Structural Realism and the Science of Linguistics." In Language, Science, and Structure. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197653098.003.0007.

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Abstract This chapter develops an ontic structural realist approach to the science of linguistics. It starts by claiming that radical theory change and multiple competing grammar frameworks threaten the success and realism of the field of linguistics. It then offers a structural realist framework by focusing on specific examples from the history of generative linguistics and the nature of competing frameworks such as dependency grammar and model-theoretic syntax. It concludes by offering a multiple models picture of linguistics.
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Lohndal, Terje. "Brief Overview of the History of Generative Syntax*." In Formal Grammar. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315267050-2.

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Harris, Randy Allen. "Generative Semantics 4: The Collapse." In The Linguistics Wars. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072563.003.0009.

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Abstract Judith Levi set to work on The Syntax and Semantics of Compled Nominals in 1974, an extensive reworking of her doctoral dissertation under McCawley that does for generative semantics what Lees’ The Grammar of English Nominalizations, a reworking of his doctoral dissertation under Chomsky, dies for early transformational grammar. Levi’s book proves—within all the variations, uncertainties and controversies that characterize any scientific attempt to model reality, especially a reality as mucky as language—that generative semantics works.
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Harris, Randy Allen. "Generative Semantics 1: The Model." In The Linguistics Wars. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199740338.003.0003.

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This chapter follows the emergence of Generative Semantics from the Transformational Grammar developments codified in Noam Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. It was on George Lakoff’s mind from before Aspects but it only achieved the rhetorical, sociological, and theoretical conditions to thrive with that codification. Generative Semantics looked like a natural extension of Transformational Grammar, rooting itself in the semantic subsoil of Deep Structure and aligning closely with Universal Grammar. But that subsoil quickly proved to be less fertile than it had seemed, so Generative Se
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Harris, Randy Allen. "Generative Semantics 2: The Heresy." In The Linguistics Wars. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072563.003.0006.

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Abstract Almost everyone who talks about the beginnings of generative semantics uses the same image about Lakoff and Ross, even if only to downplay its applicability; in Lees’s phrasing, “it may well not have been so important that the cat was away while those two mice played, but only that the two had come together.” That is, almost everyone involved sees a significant correlation between Chomsky’s 1966 sabbatical visit to Berkeley and the dramatic rise in the fortunes of abstract syntax as it segued into generative semantics. The reasons for this correlation are clear, and by this point, ver
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Harris, Randy Allen. "The Beauty of Deep Structure." In The Linguistics Wars. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199740338.003.0002.

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This chapter charts the rise of Noam Chomsky’s Transformational-Generative Grammar, from its cornerstone role in the cognitive revolution up to its widely heralded realization in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. That realization featured the development of an evocative concept, Deep Structure, a brilliant nexus of meaning and structure that integrates seamlessly with Chomsky’s companion idea, Universal Grammar, the notion that all languages share a critical, genetically encoded core. At a technical level, Deep Structure concentrated meaning because of the Katz-Postal Principle, stipulating tha
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"About Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures." In Studies in South Asian Linguistics, edited by James W. Gair and Barbara C. Lust. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195095210.003.0004.

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Abstract Colloquial Sinhalese Clause Structures (CSCS) began as my Ph.D. dissertation, essentially completed in I962. At the time of writing, it was the first treatment of the language in the then-still-young framework of transformational grammar and the first extended general treatment of Sinhala syntax. At the time that it was written, there were few models for such a treatment of a language other than English-and none on that scale for any South Asian one. It did not reach publication, in a revised form, until 1970. Thus, a number of important works in that framework, including Chomsky’s As
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Kiparsky, Paul. "Pāṇini." In The Oxford History of Phonology. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796800.003.0003.

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Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī, the most complete generative grammar of any language yet written, is based on a consistent set of principles and formal techniques, many of which have been adopted in modern linguistics. The grammar emerges solely from jointly maximizing empirical coverage and formal economy (Minimum Description Length). These twin imperatives determine its overall structure, its categories and levels of representation, its types of rules and constraints, and their application and interaction. Major economies are achieved by blocking, which organizes grammar into a vast network whose every
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