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Nathan, Geoffrey S., and Geoffrey Horrocks. "Generative Grammar." Language 65, no. 3 (September 1989): 664. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415253.

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Honeybone, Patrick, Ellen Brandner, and Gisella Ferraresi. "Language Change and Generative Grammar." Language 75, no. 3 (September 1999): 624. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417097.

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VAN GELDEREN, ELLY. "Generative coda." English Language and Linguistics 21, no. 2 (July 2017): 423–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674317000235.

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Generative grammar has its beginnings in the late 1950s with the work of Noam Chomsky and emphasizes innate linguistic knowledge, or Universal Grammar. Children use their innate knowledge and, on the basis of the language they hear spoken, also known as the E(xternalized)-Language, come up with a grammar, also known as the I(nternalized)-Language (see Chomsky 1986: 19–24). Generative grammar focuses on the ability of native speakers to speak and understand grammatical sentences.
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Dinneen, David A., and Peter J. Binkert. "Generative Grammar without Transformations." Language 63, no. 3 (September 1987): 672. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415021.

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Huck, Geoffrey J., and Michael S. Rochemont. "Focus in Generative Grammar." Language 64, no. 3 (September 1988): 623. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/414537.

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Geurts, Bart, Irene Heim, Angelika Kratzer, and Henriette de Swart. "Semantics in Generative Grammar." Language 75, no. 4 (December 1999): 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417746.

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Newmeyer, Frederick J. "Iconicity and Generative Grammar." Language 68, no. 4 (December 1992): 756. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416852.

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Szpyra, Jolanta. "Phonology in Generative Grammar." Lingua 96, no. 2-3 (July 1995): 189–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(95)90019-5.

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Cipriani, Enrico. "Semantics in generative grammar." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 42, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 134–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.00033.cip.

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Abstract I provide a critical survey of the role that semantics took in the several models of generative grammar, since the 1950s until the Minimalist Program. I distinguish four different periods. In the first section, I focus on the role of formal semantics in generative grammar until the 1970s. In Section 2 I present the period of linguistic wars, when the role of semantics in linguistic theory became a crucial topic of debate. In Section 3 I focus on the formulation of conditions on transformations and Binding Theory in the 1970s and 1980s, while in the last Section I discuss the role of semantics in the minimalist approach. In this section, I also propose a semantically-based model of generative grammar, which fully endorses minimalism and Chomsky’s later position concerning the primary role of the semantic interface in the Universal Grammar modelization (Strong Minimalist Thesis). In the Discussion, I point out some theoretical problems deriving from Chomsky’s internalist interpretation of model-theoretic semantics.
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Koktová, Eva. "Focus in generative grammar." Journal of Pragmatics 12, no. 2 (April 1988): iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(88)90072-0.

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Koktová, Eva. "Focus in Generative Grammar." Journal of Pragmatics 12, no. 2 (April 1988): 241–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(88)90085-9.

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Bagha, Karim Nazari. "Generative Grammar (GG)." Management and Labour Studies 34, no. 2 (May 2009): 291–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0258042x0903400208.

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This article consists of eight parts: introduction, the organization of a Generative Grammar, operation of the system of base rules, deep structure, surface structure and transformational rules, standard theory, extended standard theory, revised extended standard theory, and minimalism. According to Chomsky, the grammar of a language establishes a relationship between sound and meaning, i.e., between phonetic representation and semantic representation. To discover this grammar is the primary goal of linguistics. One of Chomsky's attempts to accomplish this goal is the standard theory grammar, which has been outlined in the article. We note that the grammar consists of three distinct components: the syntactic component, which consists of a Lexicon and two types of syntactic rules, the Base and the Transformational, the phonological component which consists of phonological rules, and the semantic component, which consists of Semantic rules.
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TAKAMI, KEN-ICHI. "ANAPHORA: COGNITIVE GRAMMAR ACCOUNT VS. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR ACCOUNT." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 16, no. 1 (1999): 210–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.16.210.

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Stopar, Andrej, and Gašper Ilc. "Language Impairment and Generative Analysis." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 1, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2004): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.1.1-2.47-60.

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This article deals with different types of language impairment from the perspective of generative grammar. The paper focuses on syntactic deficiencies observed in aphasic and SLI (specific language impairment) patients. We show that the observed ungrammatical structures do not appear in a random fashion but can be predicted by that theory of universal sentence structure which posits a strict hierarchy of its constituent parts. The article shows that while the hierarchically lower elements remain unaffected, the higher positions in the hierarchy show various degrees of syntactic impairment. The paper supports the implementation of recent developments in the field of generative grammar with the intention of encouraging further theoretical, experimental and therapeutic research in the field.
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Jackendoff, Ray. "Précis of Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution,." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26, no. 6 (December 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 architecture leads to an integration within linguistics, and to a far better integration with the rest of cognitive neuroscience. It fits naturally into the larger architecture of the mind/brain and permits a properly mentalistic theory of semantics. It results in a view of linguistic performance in which the rules of grammar are directly involved in processing. Finally, it leads to a natural account of the incremental evolution of the language capacity.
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Beedham, Christopher. "Descriptive versus generative grammar: The passive." Language Sciences 8, no. 2 (October 1986): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0388-0001(86)80010-9.

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Marantz, Alec, and John T. Jensen. "Morphology: Word Structure in Generative Grammar." Language 68, no. 2 (June 1992): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416954.

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Li, Haojie, and Guicheng Wang. "A Study of the Development of Generative Grammar from the Perspective of Changes in the Movement Pattern." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 6 (November 1, 2018): 1277. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0906.17.

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Movement plays an important role in generative grammar. This paper expounds characteristics and motivation of the development of generative grammar theory by analyzing and contrasting the movement pattern in different periods of generative grammar. From Move-∝ to the feature checking, and then to the matching of the probe and the target under agreement feature, a series of changes in movement pattern indicate that generative grammar is exploring the principled interpretation of the language from the perspective of biolinguistics, the explanation of the characteristics and general principles of the interface system, ultimately to the goal of going beyond the explanatory adequacy.
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Keating, Patricia A. "Phonetic representations in a generative grammar." Journal of Phonetics 18, no. 3 (July 1990): 321–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0095-4470(19)30377-8.

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Ney, James W. "On generativity." Historiographia Linguistica 20, no. 2-3 (January 1, 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 synonym for ‘to produce’ both in the writings of Chomsky and of other early transformationalists. In other instances, it is difficult to see how ‘explicit’, an adjective, can serve as a synonym for ‘generate’, a verb as this verb has been used throughout the history of transformational generative linguistics. Furthermore, it would appear that a rule like move-α has little or no meaning in a non-generative grammar, i.e., one that is merely ‘explicit’, one that does not rely on process type statements as its modus operandi. Nevertheless, in the recent history of transformationalism, Chomsky insists that ‘generative’ means nothing more than ‘explicit’ and nothing less. To him, the notion that ‘generative’ has something to do with specifying or characterizing a set of sentences is a notion that never was.
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Diaconescu, Ştefan. "Natural Language Syntax Description using Generative Dependency Grammar." Polibits 38 (December 31, 2008): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17562/pb-38-1.

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البار, ابتهال محمد. "تعليم النحو العربي لغير الناطقين بالعربية على ضوء نظرية تشومسكي." Al-Ma‘rifah 15, no. 1 (April 20, 2018): 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/almakrifah.15.01.04.

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This research aims to study the concept of transformational-generative grammar by Noam Chomsky as well as the foundation of this theory and its actional principles in terms of language acquisition, and try to use the theoretical data in teaching Arabic grammar to non-native Arabic speakers. This can be done by using the analytical descriptive approach. This research is considered important because it deals with a modern linguistic theory which has a scientific value in the modern language lesson and employs it in the field of teaching Arabic grammar. The study has benefited from data of the transformational-generative grammar in the case of coping with teaching the rules of Arabic grammar to answer fundamental questions, which are: what are the foundations of transformational-generative grammar theory? What are the rules of transformational in Arabic grammar? What are the benefits of the transformational-generative grammar theory non-native Arabic speakers? The research concluded that the conscious practice of language takes place from a constructional point of view within the meaning and not just to the practical. Second language learner must be familiar with the vocal, and grammatical system in order to be able to practice the language with its rules. Finally, the aim is not to limit the linguistic attitudes in the educational process; as the generative grammar believes that a person has a tremendous ability to produce unlimited linguistic patterns of limited linguistic elements.
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Grohmann, Kleanthes K., and Liliane Haegeman. "Elements of Grammar: Handbook of Generative Syntax." Language 75, no. 2 (June 1999): 386. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417284.

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Kuhlmann, Marco, Alexander Koller, and Giorgio Satta. "Lexicalization and Generative Power in CCG." Computational Linguistics 41, no. 2 (June 2015): 215–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00219.

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The weak equivalence of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) and Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG) is a central result of the literature on mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms. However, the categorial formalism for which this equivalence has been established differs significantly from the versions of CCG that are in use today. In particular, it allows restriction of combinatory rules on a per grammar basis, whereas modern CCG assumes a universal set of rules, isolating all cross-linguistic variation in the lexicon. In this article we investigate the formal significance of this difference. Our main result is that lexicalized versions of the classical CCG formalism are strictly less powerful than TAG.
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SCHOLZ, BARBARA C., and GEOFFREY K. PULLUM. "Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (October 22, 2007): 701–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226707004823.

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Seuren, Pieter. "Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar." Historiographia Linguistica 36, no. 1 (April 6, 2009): 97–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.05seu.

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Shannon, Thomas F., Ger de Haan, and Wim Zonneveld. "Formal Parameters of Generative Grammar, I: Yearbook 1985." Language 62, no. 4 (December 1986): 940. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415187.

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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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Crain, Stephen, and Paul Pietroski. "Is Generative Grammar deceptively simple or simply deceptive?" Lingua 116, no. 1 (January 2006): 64–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2004.06.016.

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Hendrick, R. "Formal versus explanatory generalizations in generative transformational grammar." Lingua 69, no. 1-2 (June 1986): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0024-3841(86)90082-3.

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Merlo, Paola, and Ray C. Dougherty. "Natural Language Computing: An English Generative Grammar in Prolog." Language 72, no. 3 (September 1996): 650. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416294.

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Nevin, Bruce E. "More Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar." Historiographia Linguistica International Journal for the History of the Language Sciences 36, no. 2-3 (2009): 459–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.2-3.21nev.

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Nevin, Bruce E. "More Concerning the Roots of Transformational Generative Grammar." Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics 36, no. 2-3 (December 1, 2009): 459–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.2.21nev.

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Ortega-Santos, Ivan. "Current Issues in Generative Grammar: Papers from the 10th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Universidad de Alcala, April 12-14 2000 (review)." Language 81, no. 4 (2005): 1012–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2005.0199.

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Epstein, Samuel David, Suzanne Flynn, and Gita Martohardjono. "Universal Grammar and second language acquisition: The null hypothesis." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19, no. 4 (December 1996): 746–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00043855.

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AbstractThe target article advanced the null, unified and widely misinterpreted generative hypothesis regarding second language (L2) acquisition. Postulating that UG (Universal Grammar) constrains L2 knowledge growth does not entail identical developmental trajectories for L2 and first language (LI) acquisition; nor does it preclude a role for the L1. In embracing this hypothesis, we maintain a distinction between competence and performance. Those who conflate the two repeat fundamental and by no means unprecedented misconstruals of the generative enterprise, and more specifically, of the empirical content of the null hypothesis regarding L2 linguistic knowledge growth. We hope to have identified certain common goals, the adoption of which might constitute a firm foundation for continued productive interdisciplinary development of contemporary theoretical and experimental L2 acquisition research.
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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 research conducted in Italy to this day. The first Italian generative grammar books were published in the late 1960s and early 1970s (Costabile 1967, Saltarelli 1970, Gamberini 1971, Parisi, Antinucci 1973), i.e., shortly after Noam Chomsky’s first monographs on generative grammar theory were published. However, although it can be said that Italian grammaticography kept up to date with the research carried out worldwide in the field of linguistics, the first comprehensive descriptive grammar book (Comprehensive Consultative Italian Grammar Book) was not published until 1988, when the most comprehensive traditional Italian grammar book by Luca Serianni was published as well, which is the reason why that year is considered to be a turning point in Italian linguistics. Following this turn of events, which is frequently described as revolutionary, grammar book production has flourished while authors have begun to turn to new linguistic theories more and more, i.e., mostly to the fruits of generative grammar and other theories formulated within its framework, although not for want of work dedicated to traditional grammar. Therefore, for the last two and a half decades, Italian grammaticography has abounded in traditional grammar books mainly for the purposes of school use and “new” (Andreose 2017), i.e., „modern” (Vanelli 2010) grammar books primarily for the purposes of pursuing linguistic issues professionally, as well as studying languages at the university level. The central part of the paper is dedicated to analysing individually some of the most renowned grammar books published during the first decades of the 21st century (Salvi, Vanelli 2004, Andorno 2003, Sabatini et al. 2011, Ferrari, Zampese 2016) with the aim of showing their new features in relation to tradition (the reference point of traditional linguistics was the Serianni's grammar book) regarding terminology, the norm, topics and the organisation of the very grammar books. The main conclusion of this research is that contemporary grammar books actually show the greatest departure from tradition concerning the norm and the examples sentence analyses are based on, since normative grammar books, whose goal is to establish certain grammar rules, are completely rejected and replaced by detailed descriptive grammar books aiming at describing fully all registers of the Italian language and all its possible linguistic constructions, regardless of their grammatical accuracy. A somewhat minor, but still quite significant, departure from tradition can be seen in the organisation of grammar books and topics they deal with, since syntax has surely taken precedence in analysis, but also that some traditional topics have been rejected, while some new topics have been included in grammatical analyses (e.g. phonetics and textual linguistics). The characteristic which, nonetheless, has undergone minimal changes in that “transition” from the traditional to the modern way of linguistic analysis is terminology that can be concluded to have been brought up to date and expanded rather that completely changed.
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Newmeyer, Frederick J. "The current convergence in linguistic theory: some implications for second language acquisition research." Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht) 3, no. 1 (June 1987): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026765838700300103.

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To the outsider, generative grammar must appear to contain a bewildering variety of different frameworks for syntactic description, each with its own distinct goals, research programme and technical vocabulary. It seems fair to say that this seeming inability of theoretical linguists to get their own house in order has led many applied linguists to question whether even the most general conceptions of generative grammar have any relevance to their concerns. Despite superficial appearances, however, the differences between the major generative frameworks are relatively minor, and are steadily lessening. Indeed, a convergence is taking place among the three most important, namely, the government-binding theory, generalized phrase structure grammar, and lexical-functional grammar. In particular, all now accept two basic concepts governing grammatical processes: 'modularity' and 'locality'. According to the former, grammatical complexity results from the interaction of autonomous grammatical subsystems; according to the latter, grammatical processes are sharply constrained as to the degree of 'distance' that the elements involved may lie from each other. It will be argued that these convergences have interesting implications for those who wish to apply linguistic theory to the understanding of second language acquisition.
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KITADA, SHIN-ICHI. "Control in Generative Grammar: A Research Companion." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 32, no. 2 (2015): 397–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj.32.2_397.

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Longa, Víctor M. "The abandonment of extrinsic rule ordering in generative grammar." Historiographia Linguistica 28, no. 1-2 (September 7, 2001): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.28.1.11lon.

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Summary Extrinsic rule ordering was a device used within the Standard Theory of Generative Grammar which determined the correct order for transformations to apply. During the 1970s some linguists, led by Andreas Koutsoudas, showed how this device could be eliminated. However, the great importance of their work has never been recognised. The paper offers a recent example of such a lack of acknowledgement. Furthermore, it is argued why an accurate account of the abandonment of extrinsic rule ordering matters: it represents the first systematic achievement in constraining the strong expressive power of transformations.
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Guilfoyle, Eithne, and Máire Noonan. "Functional Categories and Language Acquisition." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 37, no. 2 (June 1992): 241–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100021976.

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Many theorists (e.g., Hyams 1987; Pinker 1984) working in the framework of generative grammar have assumed the “Continuity Hypothesis”. Under this view language acquisition is made up of a series of continuous stages. The child moves from one stage to another, and at each stage the grammar posited by the child is determined by Universal Grammar (UG). The motivation for the movement from one stage to another comes from a trigger in the language environment which causes the child to restructure her grammar, and so move on to the next stage. The Continuity Hypothesis has provided an explanation for the acquisition of many linguistic structures; however, in many instances it has been difficult to explain exactly which data in the language environment act as a trigger, and why they have an effect on the child’s grammar.
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Klein, Dan, and Christopher D. Manning. "Natural language grammar induction with a generative constituent-context model." Pattern Recognition 38, no. 9 (September 2005): 1407–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2004.03.023.

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Vostrikova, Ekaterina V. "Von Humboldt on Language, Contemporary Linguistics, and the Mission of a Linguist." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 3 (2021): 52–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2021-3-52-56.

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This article examines the ideas of W. von Humboldt on language and their simi­larities and differences with the fundamental ideas about the nature of natural languages within the generative framework founded by N. Chomsky. Chomsky famously argued that von Humboldt expressed and defended some of the key ideas of the generative approach. This paper relates Chomsky’s idea of the innate universal grammar and idea of generative rules as the underlying basis of the lan­guage creativity to the similar ideas of W. von Humboldt. The paper also dis­cusses Humboldt’s problematic from the generative perspective view that natural languages can have a primitive or an advance grammar. The paper considers a possible explanation for the fact that this idea seemed consistent to Humboldt with the idea of the innate universal grammar. The contemporary linguistics views all grammars of all languages as equal because a natural language is con­sidered to be a biological feature of our species developed in the process of evo­lution. This idea was not present in Humboldt’s philosophy, which made it possi­ble for him to think that some natural languages have not fully developed a potential hidden in its speakers. In this regard, the author considers the ques­tion of the social mission of the linguist; emphasizes that this is a fight against prejudices based on unscientific understanding of languages and dialects.
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White, Lydia. "Universal Grammar, crosslinguistic variation and second language acquisition." Language Teaching 45, no. 3 (June 15, 2012): 309–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444812000146.

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According to generative linguistic theory, certain principles underlying language structure are innately given, accounting for how children are able to acquire their mother tongues (L1s) despite a mismatch between the linguistic input and the complex unconscious mental representation of language that children achieve. This innate structure is referred to as Universal Grammar (UG); it includes universal principles, as well as parameters which allow for constrained variation across languages.
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White, Lydia. "Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar." Studies in Second Language Acquisition 12, no. 2 (June 1990): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0272263100009049.

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In this article, the motivation for Universal Grammar (UG), as assumed in the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar (Chomsky, 1981a, 1981b), is discussed, particular attention being paid to thelogical problemof first language acquisition. The potential role of UG in second language (L2) acquisition is then considered. Three different positions are reviewed: (a) the claim that UG is not available to L2 learners; (b) the claim that UG is fully available; and (c) the claim that the L2 learner's access to UG is mediated by the mother tongue. This raises the issue of what kind of evidence can be used to decide between these three positions. Recent experimental research which argues for one or another of these positions by investigating the L2 status of the Subjacency Principle is reviewed, and the implications of this research are discussed.
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van Trijp, Remi. "Cognitive vs. generative construction grammar: The case of coercion and argument structure." Cognitive Linguistics 26, no. 4 (November 1, 2015): 613–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2014-0074.

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AbstractOne of the most salient hallmarks of construction grammar is its approach to argument structure and coercion: rather than positing many different verb senses in the lexicon, the same lexical construction may freely interact with multiple argument structure constructions. This view has however been criticized from within the construction grammar movement for leading to overgeneration. This paper argues that this criticism falls flat for two reasons: (1) lexicalism, which is the alternative solution proposed by the critics, has already been proven to overgenerate itself, and (2) the argument of overgeneration becomes void if grammar is implemented as a problem-solving model rather than as a generative competence model; a claim that the paper substantiates through a computational operationalization of argument structure and coercion in Fluid Construction Grammar. The paper thus shows that the current debate on argument structure is hiding a much more fundamental rift between practitioners of construction grammar that touches upon the role of grammar itself.
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Pastra, Katerina, and Yiannis Aloimonos. "The minimalist grammar of action." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367, no. 1585 (January 12, 2012): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0123.

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Language and action have been found to share a common neural basis and in particular a common ‘syntax’, an analogous hierarchical and compositional organization. While language structure analysis has led to the formulation of different grammatical formalisms and associated discriminative or generative computational models, the structure of action is still elusive and so are the related computational models. However, structuring action has important implications on action learning and generalization, in both human cognition research and computation. In this study, we present a biologically inspired generative grammar of action, which employs the structure-building operations and principles of Chomsky's Minimalist Programme as a reference model. In this grammar, action terminals combine hierarchically into temporal sequences of actions of increasing complexity; the actions are bound with the involved tools and affected objects and are governed by certain goals. We show, how the tool role and the affected-object role of an entity within an action drives the derivation of the action syntax in this grammar and controls recursion, merge and move, the latter being mechanisms that manifest themselves not only in human language, but in human action too.
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Noyer, Rolf. "Generative metrics and Old French octosyllabic verse." Language Variation and Change 14, no. 2 (July 2002): 119–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954394502142013.

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Both Old French meters and their Modern French descendants are usually thought to lack the internal binary constituent structure of, say, English or German iambic verse. In this article, however, an underlying iambic structure for the Old French octosyllable is established through quantitative analysis of a large corpus of texts written from c. 975 to 1180 (42 distinct works, including over 22,000 lines). Because no texts conform absolutely to the grammar of English iambic verse (Halle & Keyser, 1971; Kiparsky, 1977), certain measures are proposed for the degree to which a sample deviates from the iambic pattern; these values are then compared with the (chance) deviation of normal Old French prose. A significant correlation emerges between these measures and date of composition, author, and genre: early texts are almost perfectly iambic, and late 12th-century texts approach, but do not reach, chance levels. It is concluded that the grammar of meter used by Old French authors underwent a gradual change during the 12th century, a change comparable to more familiar phonological and syntactic changes.
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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 (November 18, 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 variety influences a potentially more vulnerable non-standard variety in a way that makes it exceedingly difficult for the language user and even for a trained linguist to discern what is what. We discuss whether or not these properties should be analysed as properties of another subgrammar (the standard grammar) or as fully integrated (albeit acquired) properties of the non-standard dialect.
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Christidis, A. Ph. "On generativity: Theory and pre-theory in transformational generative grammar." Lingua 66, no. 2-3 (July 1985): 201–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-3841(85)90325-0.

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Li, Haojie. "On College English Teaching in China from the Perspective of MP in Generative Grammar Theory." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 7, no. 4 (July 1, 2016): 724. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0704.12.

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This paper discusses how the theory of MP in generative grammar can be used in College English teaching in China. The author holds that a brand-new teaching paradigm- autonomous English learning-will be built if certain theories and principles of Minimalist Program (MP) are used in China’s college classroom teaching. College teachers of English apply theories of lexicon, derivation by phase under the framework of MP in generative grammar and organization strategies into their English teaching and learning appropriately and college students will renew their English learning ideas, their learning interest will be stimulated and their enthusiasm and initiative in active English learning will be enhanced.
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