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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Syntax in the Lexicon???
In-Reply-To: smryan@netcom.com's message of Wed, 18 Jan 1995 13:56:02 GMT
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In article <smryanD2LtDE.DHH@netcom.com> smryan@netcom.com (Player) writes:

>I'm thinking about trying to do a grammar where the syntax and lexicon are the
>same. For example, you start with

[long example elided --rma]

>What I was wonderring is if anybody has seen this done before and do you have
>a reference if so? (And to be pedantic, please give me the reference if you
>have it.)

This strikes me as very similar to the early versions of transformational
grammar, in which the lexicon was part of the (context-sensitive) phrase
structure grammar which generated the base deep structures.  I would look at
Chomsky's _Syntactic Structures_ and Lyons' _Introduction to Theoretical
Linguistics_ (first edition, c. 1967) for examples.

I think Chomsky moved away from this in _Aspects of the Theory of Syntax_
(1967? 1966?), but it's more than 20 years since I did enough syntax to be
sure.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
