Linguistics and the Formal Sciences - The Origins of Generative Grammar

Informationen zum Autor Marcus Tomalin is a Fellow of Downing College, University of Cambridge, and a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Klappentext An insightful overview of how syntactic theory was influenced by developments in the formal sciences during the twentieth Century. Zusammenfassung An insightful overview of how syntactic theory was influenced by developments in the formal sciences during the twentieth century. Discusses their implications for the work of linguists at that time! outlines their consequences for syntactic theory! and provides a reassessment of Chomsky's early work in Generative Grammar. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of mathematical symbols; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The consequences of analysis; 3. Mathematical linguistics; 4. Systems of syntax: 1951-1955; 5. Transforming generative grammar: 1955-1957; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Marcus Tomalin, Marcus (University of Cambridge) Tomalin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521066488
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06648-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics