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From: Gosse Bouma <gosse@let.rug.nl>
Subject: Re: grammar
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Ryo Stanwood wrote:

> 1. Government and Binding Theory
>    (I understand Chomsky no longer believes this)
> 2. Minimalist Theory (Chomsky's current theory, which I don't understand)
> 3. Lexical Functional Grammar (Joan Bresnan)
> 4. Head-Driven Phrase structure grammar (Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag)
> 5. Cognitive Grammar (Ron Langacker)
> 6. Stratificational Grammar (Yes, Sidney Lamb still does this)
> 7. Case grammar (abandoned by Filmore long time ago, still in vigorous
>    use among NLP and MT people)
> 8. Relational Grammar (Paul Postal)
> 9. Dependancy Grammar: various incarnations include Word grammar
>    (Richard Hudson), Lexicase (Stanley Starosta),
>    Meaning-Text theory (Igor Mel'chuk and Yuri Apresyan)
> 10. Categorial Grammar (various people: Emmon Bach, David Dowty, Barbara Partee)
> 11. Tagmemics (Kenneth Pike)
> 12. Systemic Functional grammar (M.A.K. Halliday)

> All except #6 and #11 (and probably #12) are descendants of
> transformational generative grammar, which nobody does any more. (I am
> assuming that by 'transformational generative grammar' you mean a
> theory of grammar with lots of transformations). #2 is probably the
> most direct descendant.

Just a historical note: Ajdukiewicz (1935), `Die syntaktische
Konnexitaet' is generally considered to be the first article on
Categorial Grammar. Two of the most influential papers, Lambek (1958),
`The mathematics of sentence structure', and Lambek (1961), `On the
calculus of syntactic types', were published before Chomsky's (1965)
`Aspects'. Intellectually, the ideas present in CG can be traced back
to the work of philosophers and mathematicians like Frege, Russell, and
Church. 




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