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TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR [9 records]

Record 1 2024-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

A parser counts as a transformational parser if it is based on a transformational generative grammar at least as far as its main components are concerned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

In opposition to Chomsky, who(as I noted) pays little attention to how his derivations might be realized by an individual speaker operating under "real-world" constraints, Bresnan and her colleagues have fashioned a perspective designed to illuminate how an individual will perceive or produce language. In her lexical-functional theory, there is no transformational component. The information traditionally embedded in the syntactic components is now placed in the individual' s lexicon-one's knowledge of specific words. Lexical-functional grammar provides each sentence with two structures : a constituent structure, which is similar to a surface structure(or phrase-marker tree) in the standard theory of Chomsky; and a functional structure, which includes all the grammatical relations relevant to the semantic interpretation of the sentence. The functional structure is generated by annotated phrase-structure rules working in conjunction with lexical entries for the various morphemes in a sentence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Grammaire qui introduit dans un modèle authentiquement linguistique des procédés de gestion dynamique des structures issues de l'informatique. (Technique et Science Informatiques 5, 2, 1986, 111).

OBS

Grammaire lexicale-fonctionnelle, appelée parfois grammaire d'unification.

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Grammar
DEF

A form of transformational grammar in which the deep structure is based on cases-semantically relevant syntactic relationships.

OBS

A theoretical approach to natural language analysis by the American linguist Charles Fillmore, somewhat influenced by Tesnière’s grammatical model.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Grammaire

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
  • Grammar
CONT

Generative semantics is an outgrowth of transformational grammar... The generative semantics position is, in essence, that syntax and semantics cannot be separated and that the role of transformations, and of derivational constraints in general, is to relate semantic representations and surface structures.

CONT

Lakoff and Ross’s incendiary question quickly mutated into a movement called generative semantics (GS).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Grammaire
CONT

Le modèle de la sémantique générative ne veut faire aucune distinction entre les structures "logiques" et syntaxiques, et propose un ensemble homogène de transformations qui font passer des représentations sémantiques aux structures de surface.

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

A grammar that generates the deep structures of a language and relates these to the surface structures by means of transformation rules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

grammaire comportant des règles qui établissent des équivalences entre divers types de phrase, dont elle rend compte par des opérations explicites.

Spanish

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Record 6 1991-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A transformational rule written on the assumption that the grammar describes the analysis of surface sentences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grammar
OBS

In transformational grammar, a word, phrase or sentence which is placed within another sentence structure, called the matrix, through a transformation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grammaire
OBS

Enchâssement : En grammaire générative, l'enchâssement est l'opération qui, au cours d'une transformation, consiste à inclure totalement une suite dans une autre suite, en l'insérant à la place d'un des constituants de cette dernière.

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Grammar
OBS

The placement, in certain situations, of a normally free morpheme, such as a pronoun or verbal auxiliary, so that it behaves like a bound form. A term which has been used to refer to one or more rules in transformational grammar.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grammaire
CONT

Ainsi, la cliticisation en français, opération de mouvement aux propriétés bien connues depuis la thèse de Kayne (1969), semble devoir être classée dans l'une ou l'autre famille selon que le pronom qu'elle déplace soit réfléchi ou non.

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-07-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
CONT

As described in Chomsky's 1957 monograph, the method of transformational grammar works roughly as follows. Beginning with phrase-structure rules, one generates only the cores of sentences, or kernel sentences, which are short active declarative assertions. These are generated by following a set of instructions for constructing strings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
OBS

Terme attesté dans l'ouvrage de N. Rumet sur les grammaires transfonctionnelles de Chomsky, publié à Paris en 1967.

Spanish

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