: Methodological Aspects of Transformational Generative Grammar . Rudolph P. Botha.

Tracking the origins of transformational generative grammar 1

Tracking the main influences of 19thand 20th-century mathematics, logic and philosophy on pre-1958 American linguistics and especially on early Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG) is an ambitious cross-disciplinary endeavour. Ideally it would call for expertise in the methods of intellectual historiography, the history and content of 20th-century American linguistics, the history and phil...

On certain aspects of generative grammar computer testing

The present paper deals with the description of computer testing of the functional generative description (proposed by P. Sgall). Illustrations are given of the system of programmes for testing the generative component of the grammar, and some aspects of notation necessitated by the specific requirements of computer testing are pointed out. 1. The problem whether a particular generative grammar...

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 ...

Transformational Grammar and Transformational Parsing in the Request System

A Generative Dependency Grammar

This document presents a new kind of grammar: the Generative Dependency Grammar (GDG). This type of grammar is based on dependency trees (DT) and a generative process. GDG will eliminate some issues of DG (by example the missing of phrasal categories) and GG (the problem of discontinuous structures) and will merge the advantages of the two types of grammar (GG the representation of phrasal cate...