Word Formation in Generative Grammar

Some Problems of Word-Formation within the Framework of a Generative Grammar

Word-formation has not yet received due attention in ~ e n e r a t i v e grammars , p r o b a b l y becal~se i t i s an i n t e r i m problem between t h a t o f the m o r e o r l e s s c l e a r l y e s t a b l i shed ~orpho-phonological possibilities and the problem of the lexicon, which h~s not yet been worked out (re~ardin~ wor@format ion see the p r o d u c t i v e a t t e m p t s o f Chom...

Current developments in generative grammar

A system for the generation of sentences is proposed which operates on three levels (constituent, transformational, and lexical) in such a way that there results a simplification in formulation, which is accomplished by allowing the initial symbol S to dominate other occurences of the same symbol S, and by adopting the convention whereby first the constituent structure is generated from highest...

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...

Word Grammar

Inheritance in Word Grammar

This paper describes the central role played by default inheritance in Word Grammar, a theory of language knowledge and processing. A single formalism is used to represent knowledge at the levels of morphology, syntax, and semantics. A single rule of inference is used to inherit knowledge at all of these levels. This rule is distinctive in that it requires defaults to be explicitly overridden i...