| |  | Chomsky, Noam | Syntactic Structures read moreAbstract: Syntax is the study of principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular language. Syntactic investigation of a given language has its goal the contruction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis. More generally, linguists must be concerned with the problem of determining the fundamental underlying properties of successful grammars. The ultimate outcome of these investigations should be a theory of linguistic structure in which the descriptive devices utilized in particular grammars are presented and studied abstractly, with no specific reference to particular languages. One function of this theory is to provide a general method for selecting a grammar for each language, given a corpus of sentences of this language. | 2002 |
| |  | Bloom, Paul | Thinking Through Language read moreAbstract: Sorry no abstract available for this article | 2001 |