Words as Grammatical Primes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2875731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Lackowski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1963 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 211 |
| Publication date | 1963-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411201 |
| OpenAlex | W2317958480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It is commonly assumed that one can write a generative grammar while adhering to three methodological restrictions: (1) that neither semantics nor statistics enter into either the statement or the evaluation criteria of the grammar; (2) that the grammar be finite; and (3) that the grammar generate strings of morphemes, or, equivalently, that the last rules of the grammar be of the form X → a, b, c,..., where X is some grammatical abstraction (such as ‘noun‘) and a, b, c, ... are morphemes or words ( man, thing, happiness.) I shall attempt to demonstrate that it is not possible to write a grammar while strictly adhering to all these restrictions, and advance some arguments in favor of eliminating the last
Linguistics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1964 - 1965 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |