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Pieter Seuren: Western Linguistics . That was the text book when I took a course on linguistic theories of the twentieth century five years ago. This is stupidly late, but this book seems to be stuck in the 1960s in terms of formal grammars. It seems to only mention TGG, which is no longer used by ...

Well I'm glad someone is. :p

And 6: Goverment and Binding

A Brief History of Grammar - Government and Binding

Part the 5th!

A Brief History of Grammar - Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST)

Now with even more words in the name of the theory!

Enjoy?

And part 4

A Brief History of Grammar - Extended Standard Theory (EST)

Apparently, Nuxalk, a Salishan language, has a word meaning "he had had a bunchberry plant": /xKp_>X_wKtKpK:sk_wts_>/. How the hell does one even pronounce something like that? By not confronting Nuxalks about former possesions of bunchberry plants. I should hope that the raspberry equivalent, "he ...

Part 3 is up!

A Brief History of Grammar - Standard Theory (ST)

Enjoys.

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Part 2 is up: A Brief History of Grammar - Transformational Grammar (TG) Noriega: Sorry for not replying sooner. I would suggest you take a look at Carnie's Syntax: A Generative Introduction (which uses the Principles and Parameters/Government and Binding framework), and Adger's Core Syntax (which u...

Ok, first part is up. Long and somewhat dense, but useful for the rest.

A Brief History of Grammar - Structural Linguistics and Formal Languages

I've gotten bored and I'm in one of my "teaching" moods, so I've decided that I'm going to write up a series of blog posts the trace the history of generative grammar. For each one I'm going to outline the core elements of the theory and look at how the theory works on a few basic, but I think exemp...

Eddy wrote:Yeah EI, I've often wished for words like that as well, particularly a nominal form of "serious". The best I can think of is "seriosity"by analogy of "curious" -> "curiosity".