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Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures was the snowball which began the avalanche of the modem "cognitive revolution." The cognitive per spective originated in the seventeenth century and now construes mod em linguistics as part of psychology and human biology. Depending on their initial conditions, children grow into adults with various lan
Nov 22, 2020 · Building on network theory, the current paper outlines a structured network approach to the study of grammar in which the core concepts of syntax are analyzed by a set of relations that specify associations between different aspects of a speaker’s linguistic knowledge.
- Lexical Modulation, Ad Hoc Word Senses, and Polysemy
- Lexical Innovation: Words Derived from Other Words, ‘Conversions’ and Metonymy
- Complex Words and Their Senses
A starting assumption here is that language users have an awareness of words (that is, words comprise a psychologically real category) while the internal structure of words is much less salient to them (Julien, 2007). This is especially so for simple words like ‘dog’, ‘fresh’ and ‘run’, which, although consisting of a root plus grammatical structur...
Sources of new words are multifarious. Consider, for instance, the recent mainstream use of the adjective ‘woke’, with its origin in a particular African-American dialect, in which it meant being ‘woken up to’ or being alert to issues around racial injustice, or the verb ‘to gaslight’, now widely used with the meaning to psychologically undermine s...
I return now to the central issue of the paper, that of structurally complex words that have a non-compositional meaning/sense (alongside a compositional meaning) and how this arises. Recall that, as outlined in Sect. 2.2 above, this is an issue that on the face of it looks like a challenge for those syntacticians who subsume word structure into sy...
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Dec 17, 2009 · Syntactic structures are complex objects, whose subtle properties have been highlighted and elucidated by half a century of formal syntactic studies, building on a much older tradition. Their cartography is an attempt to draw maps as precise and detailed as possible of syntactic configurations.
Syntax is the part of grammar that pertains to a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures. What the Syntax Rules Do. The rules of syntax combine words into phrases and phrases into sentences. They specify the correct word order for a language. For example, English is a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language.
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Syntactic Structures after 60 years (Studies in Generative Grammar 129). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018, Pp. 459. This article examines the major concepts and signature analyses of Syntactic Structures along with their treatment in the seventeen commentaries written to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Noam Chomsky’s first monograph. §1
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