: A Transformational Grammar of Igbo . Patricia L. Carrell.

Lambek Calculus for Transformational Grammar

In this paper we present a formalization of some ideas from Chomsky (1995) in the framework of multimodal type logical grammar (e.g., Moortgat (1996) and refs). This project is in many respects rather straightforward, but makes use of aspects of the type logical machinery which are generally not used, or at least not used for these purposes, in categorial grammar. This allows us to investigate ...

Context - Free Grammar - Part 1 Patricia

The notation and terminology used here have been introduced in the following papers: [9], [7], [1], [8], [10], [11], [4], [2], [6], [5], and [3]. We consider context-free grammars which are systems 〈symbols, a initial symbol, rules〉, where the symbols constitute a non-empty set, the initial symbol is an element of the symbols, and the rules constitute a relation between the symbols and (the sym...

Transformational Grammar and Transformational Parsing in the Request System

Mathematical and Computational Models of Transformational Grammar

INTRODUCTION In this paper we compare three models of transformational grammar: the mathematical model of Ginsburg and Partee (1969) as applied by Salomaa (1971), the mathematical model of Peters and Ritchie (1971 and forthcoming), and the computer model of Friedman et al. (1971). All of these are, of course, based on the work of Chomsky as presented in Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965). W...

The psychological relevance of transformational grammar: a reply to Stabler.

In a recent reply to our article in Cognition (1984), E. Stabler criticized us on two main points: our construal of transformational grammar (TG) as a “first level” theory; and our claim that a first level construal of TG is crucial, for its psychological relevance. We’d like to dispute both of these points, and in so doing re-emphasize the psychological relevance of modern transformational gra...