Paraphrase Grammars

di R.M. Smaby (Autore)

Springer, 1970

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.

• Autore: R.M. Smaby
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Formal Linguistics Series
• Anno: 1970
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 145 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789027701787

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