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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 & 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 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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Jacobsen, Bent. "The Origin and Rationale of X-bar Syntax." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 6, no. 10 (2015): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v6i10.21517.

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The present paper is intended as a reasonably elementary introduction to the nature of X-bar syntax, an important module in the structure of a modern transformational-generative grammar. The examples have been taken from English; however, since X-bar syntax is an integral part of the overall structure of Universal Grammar, the analyses presented here extend to any language.

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Mateu, Jaume, and Renato Oniga. "Latin Syntax in Fifty Years of Generative Grammar." Catalan Journal of Linguistics 16 (December 22, 2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.213.

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Håkansson, David, Erik Magnusson Petzell, and Elisabet Engdahl. "Introduction: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 02 (2019): 135–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586519000131.

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This special issue of Nordic Journal of Linguistics is dedicated to diachronic generative syntax in the North Germanic languages. With the introduction of generative grammar in the late 1950s the historical perspective became less prominent within linguistics. Instead, contemporary language, normally represented by the researcher’s own intuitions, became the unmarked empirical basis within the generative field, although there were some early pioneering studies in generative historical syntax (e.g. Traugott 1972). It was not until the introduction of the Principles and Parameters theory in the

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Seuren, Pieter. "Essentials of Semantic Syntax." Cadernos de Linguística 2, no. 1 (2021): 01–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.v2.n1.id290.

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Semantic Syntax (SeSyn), originally called Generative Semantics, is an offshoot of Chomskyan generative grammar (ChoGG), rejected by Chomsky and his school in the late 1960s. SeSyn is the theory of algorithmical grammars producing the well-formed sentences of a language L from the corresponding semantic input, the Semantic Analysis (SA), represented as a traditional tree structure diagram in a specific formal language of incremental predicate logic with quantifying and qualifying operators (including the truth functions), and with all lexical items filled in. A SeSyn-type grammar is thus by de

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Morin, Cameron, Guillaume Desagulier, and Jack Grieve. "Dialect syntax in Construction Grammar." Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020) 34 (December 31, 2020): 248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00050.mor.

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Abstract This squib focuses on two main issues. Firstly, it examines the ways in which constructionist approaches to language can bring about an improved theoretical understanding of Double Modals (DMs) in dialects of English. DMs have proved to be a long-lasting, notorious puzzle in formal linguistics, and have not received any general solution today, with much analysis devoted to their constituent structure and their postulated layers of derivation, especially in generative models of language. Usage-based strands of Construction Grammar (CxG) appear to naturally overcome such problems, while

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Cole, Peter, Gabriella Hermon, and Yassir Nasanius Tjung. "How irregular is WH in situ in Indonesian?" Studies in Language 29, no. 3 (2005): 553–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.29.3.02col.

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Contemporary approaches to Generative syntax lead to the expectation that WH in situ would be subject to few distributional restrictions; but a series of complex constraints apply to in-situ WH in subject position in Standard Indonesian. We argue that this distribution does not follow from principles of formal grammar, but rather from a constraint on the relationship between syntax and information structure. We then turn to Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian, a variety similar to Standard Indonesian with regard to grammatical restrictions on WH in situ, but lacking the constraint on the relationshi

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Telkova, Valentina Alekseevna. "The ideas of universal grammar in the area of syntax and their reflection in the Russian educational materials of the early XIX century." Филология: научные исследования, no. 4 (April 2020): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2020.4.30410.

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The subject of this research is the analysis of universal grammar ideas in the area of syntax and their reflection in the Russian educational materials of the early XIX century. The relevance is defined by the fact that writings of the authors of universal grammars contain ideas currently applied in description of fact of language within the framework of generative grammar. View on grammar of A. S. Nikolsky, F. F. Rozanov, L. H. Jacob, I. F. Timkovsky, I. Ornatovsky repeatedly have become the subject of analysis; however, in light on most recent achievements of the theory of linguistics, previ

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Khasanah, Noor. "Transformational Linguistics and the Implication Towards Second Language Learning." Register Journal 3, no. 1 (2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/rgt.v3i1.23-36.

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The essence of Chomsky’s approach to language is the claim that there are linguistic universals in domain of syntax. He felt confident to show that syntax can be defined for any given language. For Chomsky, the nature of such mental representations is largely innate, so if a grammatical theory has explanatory adequacy it must be able to explain the various grammatical nuances of the languages of the world as relatively minor variations in the universal pattern of human language. In teaching English as L2, therefore knowing syntax and grammar of the language is important. Transformational Gener

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Jackendoff, Ray. "Précis of Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution,." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (2003): 651–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x03000153.

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The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate Universal Grammar. However, generative grammar was mistaken in assuming that the syntactic component is the sole course of combinatoriality, and that everything else is “interpretive.” The proper approach is a parallel architecture, in which phonology, syntax, and semantics are autonomous generative systems linked by interface components. The parallel arc

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Håkansson, David, Erik Magnusson Petzell, and Elisabet Engdahl. "CALL FOR PAPERS: NJL SPECIAL ISSUE: New perspectives on diachronic syntax in North Germanic." Nordic Journal of Linguistics 41, no. 1 (2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s033258651800001x.

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The second issue of Volume 42 (autumn 2019) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue devoted to diachronic syntax within the framework of generative grammar. The issue will be edited by David Håkansson, Erik Magnusson Petzell and Elisabet Engdahl.

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Krivochen, Diego Gabriel, and Ľudmila Lacková. "Iconicity in syntax and the architecture of linguistic theory." Studies in Language 44, no. 1 (2020): 95–131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sl.19017.lac.

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Abstract Linguistic iconicity has been studied since ancient times (e.g., Plato’s Cratylus, see Cooper & Hutchinson 1997). Within modern grammatical description, this notion was mostly developed by Jakobson and Benveniste; nowadays, iconicity in language is even being experimentally tested (e.g., Blasi et al. 2016; Diatka & Milička 2017). However, most studies on linguistic iconicity pertain to prosody, sound symbolism, or morphology; syntactic iconicity has been vastly underexplored. In this paper, we present two hypotheses concerning syntactic iconicity: (1) syntactic descriptions of

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Shao, Shiyang. "Review of Beginning Syntax: An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis by Ian Roberts." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 8, no. 06 (2025): 147–51. https://doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2025.v08i06.002.

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Beginning Syntax: An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis aims to present the basic concepts of syntactic theory to readers without requiring prior linguistic knowledge. Starting from the ideas of modern generative linguistics, the author systematically introduces basic concepts and the latest developments in linguistic theory in a step-by-step fashion. Topics covered include Phrase Structure Rules, X’-theory, Wh-movement Rules, Universal Grammar, Movement Parameters, and the Architecture of Grammar. The book explores multiple perspectives in natural languages, emphasizing the relationship betwe

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Eide, Kristin Melum, and Tor A. Åfarli. "Dialects, registers and intraindividual variation: Outside the scope of generative frameworks?" Nordic Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2020): 233–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0332586520000177.

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AbstractThis article explores intraindividual microvariation in dialect syntax. We argue that in many cases the speaker has internalized a different (sub)grammar for each dialectal variety, in line with the hypothesis of universal bilingualism and parallel grammars argued for by Roeper (1999 et seq.). We discuss the question of how we can distinguish parallel grammars from optionality within one grammar, suggesting that the identification of correlating contextual factors might be a promising criterion. However, we also explore a more subtle type of variation, namely cases where a standard var

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Culicover, Peter W., and Giuseppe Varaschin. "On the goals of theoretical linguistics." Theoretical Linguistics 50, no. 1-2 (2024): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2003.

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Abstract We review some of the main goals of theoretical linguistics in the tradition of Generative Grammar: description, evolvability and learnability. We evaluate recent efforts to address these goals, culminating with the Minimalist Program. We suggest that the most prominent versions of the Minimalist Program represent just one possible approach to addressing these goals, and not a particularly illuminating one in many respects. Some desirable features of an alternative minimalist theory are the dissociation between syntax and linear order, the emphasis on representational economy (i.e. Si

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Nefdt, Ryan M. "Scientific modelling in generative grammar and the dynamic turn in syntax." Linguistics and Philosophy 39, no. 5 (2016): 357–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-016-9193-4.

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Mitrovic, Marija. "ITALIAN GRAMMATICOGRAPHY BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 35 (2021): 275–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.35.2021.14.

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The aim of this paper is to show the current situation in contemporary Italian grammaticography, i.e., to analyse grammatical models (traditional, generative and dependency model) grammar reference books for different purposes are based on. By means of diachronic and synchronic analysis of grammar reference books, we have examined and showed to what extent traditional theories and terminology are retained, i.e., to what extent generative grammar and valency theory are present. The introductory part of the paper shows the development of Italian grammaticography from the first generative researc

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Ney, James W. "On generativity." Historiographia Linguistica 20, no. 2-3 (1993): 341–454. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.20.2-3.08ney.

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Summary Chomsky insists that he has always understood a generative grammar to be “nothing more than an explicit grammar”. Other commentators have understood that ‘generate’ means ‘specify an infinite set’ and that a ‘generative’ grammar is a grammar which specifies an infinite set of sentences. This understanding of the term ‘generative’ has had a long and interesting history within the confines of linguistic theory starting in the writings of Chomsky’s intellectual predecessors and continuing through the writings of Chomsky himself. In some cases, it even seems that ‘to generate’ is a near sy

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Čamdžić, Amela, and Richard Hudson. "Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar." Research in Language 5 (December 18, 2007): 5–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10015-007-0001-7.

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Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are unsatisfactory in various ways. We then explain how Word Grammar handles clitics: as words whose form is an affix rather than the usual ‘word-form’. Like other affixes, clitics need a word to accommodate them, but in the case of clitics this is a special kind of word called a ‘hostword’. We present a detailed analysis of Serbo-Croat clitics wit

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Zhang, Yibing. "Revelations on Grammar Teaching Based on an Analysis on Syntactic Structure of Transformational Generative Grammar and Metafunctions of Systemic Functional Grammar." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 5, no. 10 (2022): 72–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.10.9.

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English has become one of the compulsory subjects for students in China. As a foreign language, especially one whose grammatical structure is, in some sense, diverse from learners’ mother tongue, it requires teachers to research proper methods to present syntactic patterns for students’ sake. When teachers turn to linguistics, there are two well-known theories about syntax from different points of perspective. They are transformational-generative grammar, proposed by Chomsky, and systemic functional grammar by Halliday. Concerned that most beginners may be challenged to be exposed to a totally

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Kazemi, Foroogh, and Rozita Ranjbar. "Affixation in Ardalani Kurdish Based on Distributed Morphology." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 4 (2019): 459. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0904.14.

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among the recent generative grammar approaches to explain morphology, the distributed morphology approach can be mentioned. In this approach there is no place as lexicon or morphology for formation of words and word formation is occurred after syntax processes. The present research is trying to introduce distributed morphology as a non-lexicalist approach and consider the phenomenon of affixation in Ardalani Kurdish language by this approach. The research results indicate that affixation and the process of forming plural nouns can be explained by distributed morphology approach.

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Proroković, Jakov, and Frane Malenica. "The Acquisition of Language: Evidence in Syntax." European Journal of Language and Literature 8, no. 1 (2017): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v8i1.p85-99.

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This paper aims to discuss the two main approaches to language acquisition and present the main ideas behind the nativist and the usage-based account. The concomitant argument between the two sides has been present in linguistics ever since the proposal of innateness was provided by the paradigm of mainstream generative grammar (Chomsky 1965). In order to contribute to the ongoing discussion, we will attempt to outline the main challenges that the both theoretical strands are faced with and provide an overview of syntactic evidence provided by linguists whose work was devoted to understanding

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Pross, Tillmann. "What about lexical semantics if syntax is the only generative component of the grammar?" Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37, no. 1 (2018): 215–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-018-9410-7.

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Chung, Sandra. "The Syntax and Prosody of Weak Pronouns in Chamorro." Linguistic Inquiry 34, no. 4 (2003): 547–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438903322520151.

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In the modular linguistic theory assumed by many generative linguists, phonology and syntax are interconnected but fundamentally independent components of grammar. The effects of syntax on phonology are mediated by prosodic structure, a representation of prosodic constituents calculated from syntactic structure but not isomorphic to it. Within this overall architecture, I investigate the placement of weak pronouns in the Austronesian language Chamorro. Certain Chamorro pronominals can be realized as prosodically deficient weak pronouns that typically occur right after the predicate. I showthat

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McCAWLEY, JAMES D. "Newmeyer's cyclic view of the history of generative grammar." Journal of Linguistics 35, no. 1 (1999): 151–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226798007348.

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Frederick J. Newmeyer, Generative linguistics: a historical perspective. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp. x+218.In this book (henceforth, GL), Newmeyer has collected 11 of his articles (including two co-authored ones), two of them previously unpublished, on the history of generative grammar, supplemented by reprints of two sections of Newmeyer 1986.

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Cortés-Rodríguez, Francisco J., and Ana Díaz-Galán. "The lexical constructional model meets syntax: guidelines of the formalized lexical-constructional model (FL_CxG )." Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas 18 (July 26, 2023): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2023.18643.

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This paper offers the basic guidelines of a formalized version of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal Usón, 2008, 2011; Ruiz de Mendoza & Galera, 2014), the Formalized Lexical-Constructional Grammar (FL_CxG), which will pave the way for future computational developments, such as parsers or lexical databases. The FL_CxG deploys (i) the typologically oriented syntactic apparatus of Role and Reference Grammar (Van Valin, 2005; Van Valin & LaPolla, 1997), (ii) the catalogue of constructional units arranged in a 4-layer typology, as proposed by the LCM, and (

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Hu, Wenyuan. "Generative Grammar in Thomas Kuhns Paradigm and Structure of Scientific Revolution." Communications in Humanities Research 19, no. 1 (2023): 173–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/19/20231233.

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This research aims to justify that generative grammar, an approach of linguistic study started by Nome Chomsky, is a Kuhnian paradigm. By reviving previous academic writings, two methods, or two sets of components that were thought to be present in Kuhnian paradigms, were employed: the first set included symbolic generalization, model, value, and exemplar; the second set included methodological component, theoretical component, and empirical components. The research also discussed the scientific revolution between generative grammar and North American Descriptivists, which came before generati

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Egli, Urs. "Stoic syntax and semantics." Historiographia Linguistica 13, no. 2-3 (1986): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.13.2-3.09egl.

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Summary The Stoic theory of loquia (lekta) contained a fairly explicit statement of formation rules. It is argued that one type of rule was called syntaxis (combination or phrase structure rule) by Chrysippus (e.g., “a subject in the nominative case and a complete predicate form a statement”). Two other types of rule were assignments of words to lexical categories (“Dion is a Noun Phrase”) and subsumption rules (“Every elementary statement is a statement”), often formulated in the form of subdivisions of concepts. A fourth type of rule seems to have been the class of transformations (enklisis,

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Teimi, Cherif. "The Correspondence between Syntax and Semantics." International Journal of English Linguistics 6, no. 3 (2016): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v6n3p118.

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<p>The issue of Interfaces is central to linguistic studies. Modern linguistics, especially semantic studies, has given a special interest to this topic. However, up till very recently, the issue has been dealt with mainly from a syntactico-centric point of view. Throughout the development of linguistic theories, there has been a rooted idea in generative grammar that meaning is generated from syntactic structure. In fact, although we adopt the Conceptual Semantics framework, which considers meaning to be too rich and multidimensional to be encoded in purely syntactic mechanisms, we shal

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Singh, Rajdeep. "Derivational Grammar Model and Basket Verb: A Novel Approach to the Inflectional Phrase in the Generative Grammar and Cognitive Processing." English Linguistics Research 7, no. 2 (2018): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v7n2p9.

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Generative grammar was a true revolution in the linguistics. However, to describe language behavior in its semantic essence and universal aspects, generative grammar needs to have a much richer semantic basis. In this paper, we took a novel morpho-syntactic approach to the inflectional phrase to account for the very diverse inflectional phrase qualities in different languages. Some languages show a very different surface verbal inflection, providing evidence of a different mental processing at the semantic level. In fact, the inflectional phrase is a great representative of the mental and sema

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BURTON-ROBERTS, NOEL, and GEOFFREY POOLE. "‘Virtual conceptual necessity’, feature-dissociation and the Saussurian legacy in generative grammar." Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 3 (2006): 575–628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226706004208.

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This paper is a critique of two foundational assumptions of generative work culminating in the Minimalist Program: the assumption that, as a matter of conceptual necessity, language has a ‘double-interface property’ and the related assumption that phonology has a realizational function with respect to syntax-semantics. The issues are broached through a critique of Holmberg's (2000) analysis of Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic. We show that, although empirically motivated, and although based on the double-interface assumption, this analysis is incompatible with that assumption and with the notio

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Harris, Randy Allen. "The origin and developmemt of generative semantics." Historiographia Linguistica 20, no. 2-3 (1993): 399–440. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.20.2-3.07har.

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Summary Against the background of the controversial and polarized work of Frederick Newmeyer and Robin Tolmach Lakoff, this paper chronicles the early development of generative semantics, an internal movement within the transformational model of Chomsky’s Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. The first suggestions toward the movement, whose cornerstone was the obliteration of the syntax-semantics boundary, were by George Lakoff in 1963. But it was the work conducted under the informal banner of “Abstract Syntax” by Paul Postal that began the serious investigations leading to such an obliteration. L

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Ajibade, M.1 (Mrs.). "THE COMPARATIVE SYNTAX OF EGBA DIALECT AND STANDARD YORUBA LANGUAGE." Nigerian Educational Digest (NED) Volume 12, No. 1, June 2012 (2012): 61–73. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7775204.

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It is my intention in this paper to present the similarities and the differences of the standard Yoruba language and the Egbd dialect through lexical processes, phrasal categories and syntactic processes. The work will follow the generative grammar approach as | Chomsky's (1981) Government and Binding theory, and will substantially utilize exiting grammars and example to give up comparable structures in Egbd dialect for the possible long term exercise in historical linguistics. Today, words in Yoruba metalanguage are rich and adequate because dialects fill possible gaps. This work will par

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Alaowffi, Nouf Y., and Abdulrahman A. Althawab. "The Syntax of Wh-Interrogatives in Hijazi Arabic: A Non-Transformational Approach." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 13, no. 10 (2023): 2525–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1310.11.

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Unbounded dependencies are structures where two elements that typically co-occur appear far from one another in spite of the syntactic dependency between them. Wh-interrogatives are one of the mostly investigated types of unbounded dependencies cross-linguistically. To contribute to the ongoing linguistic research in wh-interrogatives, the current paper attempts to explore them in one of the Arabic varieties: Hijazi Arabic (HA). The paper primarily focuses on how to account for the constructions of HA wh-interrogatives using one of the prominent non-transformational theories in generative synt

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Longobardi, Giuseppe. "Formal Syntax, Diachronic Minimalism, and Etymology: The History of French, Chez." Linguistic Inquiry 32, no. 2 (2001): 275–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/00243890152001771.

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Current theories place very mild constraints on possible diachronic changes, something at odds with the trivial observation that actual, “language change” represents a tiny fraction of the variation made a priori available by Universal Grammar. Much recent work in diachronic syntax has actually been guided by the aim of describing changes (e.g., parameter resetting), rather than by concerns of genuine explanation. Here I suggest a radically different viewpoint (the Inertial, Theory of diachronic syntax), namely, that syntactic change not provably due to interference should not occur at all as

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Plank, Frans. "The co-variation of phonology with morphology and syntax: A hopeful history." Linguistic Typology 21, no. 2017 (2017): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2017-1007.

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AbstractThroughout its history, the hope has always been cherished that typology is holistic, and holism entails that there is systematic co-variation not only within levels or modules of grammar but also between them. Accordingly, numerous claims have been made that phonology does not vary across languages independently of morphology and syntax, and vice versa. The variables that are allegedly interrelated pertain to segment inventories, the shapes of syllables, morphemes, and words, phonological or morphonological rules, tones and accents, and rhythmic or prosodic patterns on the one hand an

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Black, J. A. "A recent study of Babylonian grammar." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 122, no. 1 (1990): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00107889.

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Brigitte Groneberg's book is a thoughtful and discursive essay on a number of problems in the grammar, understood in the broadest sense, of a Babylonian dialect. With one comprehensive dictionary complete and another, even more comprehensive, moving in that direction, with a basic general grammar of Akkadian and several survey-grammars of the various historical stages and geographical dialects in existence, it is entirely appropriate that we should have a close study of a chronologically limited and genre-bound corpus of texts which nevertheless broaches wider questions not dealt with by the m

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Bouchard, Denis. "Propriétés des substances, conditions sur la syntaxe et explication en linguistique." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 50, no. 1-4 (2005): 119–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100003686.

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AbstractIn linguistics, explanation is based on whatever initial conditions are imposed on language, and so it necessarily functions within the range of options allowed by the laws of nature. Thus, since syntax is a computational system, it is subject to principles of efficient computation. Moreover, the Faculty of Language is located in human beings, so this means that it is constrained by the conceptual and perceptual systems of human beings. In this context, three topics are presented that have been repeatedly discussed over the last 50 years: inversion in interrogatives, long-distance depe

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Fernandes, Gonçalo. "Syntax in the earliest Latin-Portuguese grammatical treatises." Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600 44, no. 2-3 (2017): 228–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.00003.fer.

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Abstract This essay analyses the most central concepts of Latin syntactical theory in the earliest pedagogical grammars written in Portugal during the 14th and 15th centuries, namely concord, government, and transitivity. The sources include two unpublished treatises preserved in manuscripts of Portuguese origin, one from the end of the 14th century and the other dated 1427, and the first grammar printed in Portugal (1497). They are representative of the teaching of Latin in Portugal at different levels of learning. All three treatises use the vernacular as a pedagogical aid, and Pastrana’s gr

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Abeillé, Anne. "The empirical turn and its consequences for theoretical syntax." Theoretical Linguistics 50, no. 1-2 (2024): 5–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2011.

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Abstract In a pioneer paper, Featherston (Featherston, Sam. 2007. Data in generative grammar: The stick and the carrot. Theoretical Linguistics 33. 269–318) advocated the use of better controlled data in theoretical linguistics. Despite diverging on many aspects, most syntactic theories are now testing their hypotheses with more data than a few linguists’ intuitions. I will examine the consequences of this empirical turn on two syntactic phenomena: long-distance dependencies (LDD) and ellipsis. In a series of recent experiments (Liu, Yingtong, Elodie Winckel, Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth &am

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Seuren, Pieter. "Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar." Historiographia Linguistica 36, no. 1 (2009): 97–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.05seu.

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