Syntax

A simple grammar formalism--dependency grammar--motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between words are harder to make. This book contrasts dependency grammar with the industry standard going back to Chomsky’s phrase structure grammar with transformations. Dependency grammar is a simpler formalism: it does not posit the existence of categories that combine words. Furthermore, there are no transformations. Gibson argues that a construction-based dependency grammar is not only simpler than a phrase structure with transformations approach, but it also accounts for language phenomena more effectively.

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• Authors: Edward A Gibson, Edward A. Gibson, Gibson Edward A.
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 16.12.2025
• EAN: 9780262553575
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55357-5
• No. of pages: 444
• Subjects: Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology