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Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

Netter, K.
Haider, H.

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Book 22

Grammar & StyleLinguisticsGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 0792311507
ISBN13: 9780792311508
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 31 1991
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping- rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely move a, a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap- ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com- pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.

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