language acquisition is a varied field, and there is an ocean of approaches from which one can investigate first/second language acquisition. these approaches root in different fields, basically linguistics. as for linguistics, research in language acquisition ranges from structural and generative-transformational to cognitive linguistics. while in contrast with each other in main respects theo...

s of Papers for the 1963 Annual Meeting of the Association for Machine Translation and Computational Linguistics Denver, Colorado, August 25 and 26, 1963 Necessity of Introducing Some Information Provided by Transformational Analysis into MT Algorithms

Thirty-five years ago, Noam Chomsky introduced the field of linguistics to new mathematical tools drawn largely from Recursive Function Theory. These were exciting tools that imparted mathematical precision, perhaps for the first time in the history of Linguistics, to the enterprise of grammar construction. The cornerstone of Chomsky’s new theoretical edifice, was the linguistic transformation,...

A shorter, slightly revised version will appear in The Linguistic Review as \Verb Movement and Coordination in a Dynamic Theory of Licensing." Anyone interested in seeing that version before publication can contact either of the authors.

In this paper, I will review the two basic Economy mechanisms with which a Minimalist syntax accounts for the linguistic change that is most often referred to as grammaticalization. I will also add a third mechanism. These Minimalist Economy Principles lead to cycles of change, and I identify several such cycles here. Examples of three cycles will be drawn from languages such as Norwegian, Swed...

Transformational grammars have developed with recent research in linguistics. They appear to be a powerful and explicit device for characterizing the description of sentences; they also meet conditions of adequacy that can be applied to check that a sentence, or a set of rules, is well-formed. A transformational grammar tester is part of a strategy for the selection of a well-formed grammar mat...

Research is reviewed that addresses itself to human language learning by developing precise, mechanistic models that are capable in principle of acquiring languages on the basis of exposure to linguistic data. Such research includes theorems on language learnability from mathematical linguistics, computer models of language acquisition from cognitive simulation and artificial intelligence, and ...

We may make an intuitive judgment that some linguistic expression is odd or deviant. But we cannot in general know, pretheoretically, whether this deviance is a matter of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, belief , memory limitations, style, etc. [Chomsky (1977:4)] 1 Introduction At least since the pioneering work of Chomsky and Miller (1963), it has been generally agreed within discussions of gram...

The major contributions of this thesis are articulated around the three basic axes of computational linguistics, namely logic, linguistics and computer science. We propose a new undirected system GLE which allows to simulate the transformational operations of the Minimalist Program within a logical setting. The relevance of this formalism is underlined by showing its ability to deal with comple...