Paraphrase Grammars
Published on 31. December 1970
Book
Hardback
VIII, 145 pages
978-90-277-0178-7 (ISBN)
Description
The recent rapid development of transformational grammars has incorpo rated some strong claims in the areas of semantics and co-occurrence. The earlier structuralists relied on a minimum of information about the meaning of strings of a language. They asked only if strings of sounds were different in meaning - or simply were different words or phrases. Current transfor mational grammars, on the other hand, set as their goal the production of exactly the meaningful strings of a language. Stated slightly differently, they wish to specify exactly which strings of a language can occur together (meaningfully) in a given order. The present book purports to show that transformational grammar is in dependent of the current trends in semantics. I claim that exciting and sophisticated transformational grammars are required for describing when strings of a language mean the same, that is, for describing when strings of a language are paraphrases of each other. This task can be quite naturally limited to a project of much weaker semantic claims than those which are current in transformational linguistics.
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Edition
1971 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 145 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-277-0178-7 (9789027701787)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-3338-1
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Content
I: Introduction.- 1. The Transformational Approach.- 2. The Paraphrase Relation.- 3. Paraphrase Grammars.- 4. Compositional Grammars.- 5. Substitution.- 6. Admission Conditions.- 7. Equivalence.- 8. Functional Notation.- 9. Summary.- II: The Paraphrase Relation.- 1. The Study of the Paraphrase Relation.- 2. Collection of Data.- 3. Selection of Data.- 4. Generalization of the Paraphrastic Relationships.- 5. Systematization of the Paraphrase Relation.- 6. Summary.- III: Compositional Grammars.- 1. The Compositional Approach.- 2. A Simple Compositional Language: P.- 3. Compositional Grammars and the Co-Occurrence Problem.- 4. 'Projection Rules'.- 5. Summary.- IV: Substitution.- 1. The Substitution Concept.- 2. The Presence of Substitution.- 3. A Notation for Substitution.- 4. The Generality of Substitution.- 5. Operations and Transformations.- 6. Summary.- V: Admission and Equivalence.- 1. Admission Conditions.- 2. Ordering of Transformations.- 3. A Recursive Definition and an Admission Condition.- 4. Equivalence.- 5. Summary.- VI: Functional Representation.- 1. Functional Notation.- 2. Functions and Transformations.- 3. Functions and Phonology: the Relative Clause.- 4. Summary.- VII: The Structure of Paraphrase Grammars.- 1. The Recursive Enumerability of the Transformation Relation.- 2. Elementary Transformations.- 3. Summary.- Appendix: Recursive Enumerability.- Index of Subjects.