Arc Pair Grammar

Arc pair grammar is a new, extensively formalized, theory of the grammatical structure of natural languages. As an outgrowth of relational grammar, it constitutes a theoretical alternative to the long-dominant generative transformational approach to linguistics. In this work, David Johnson and Paul Postal offer the first comprehensive presentation of this theoretical framework, which provides entirely new notions of all the basic concepts of grammatical theory: sentence, language, rule, and grammar.

Originally published in 1981.

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David E. Johnson & Paul M. Postal

Inhalt

• FrontMatter,
• CONTENTS,
• Preface,
• Chapter 1. Introduction,
• Chapter 2. Graph-Theoretic Aspects of APG,
• Chapter 3. Arc Pair Relations,
• Chapter 4. Pair Networks,
• Chapter 5. Basic Sponsor and Erase Laws,
• Chapter 6. Coordinate Determination,
• Chapter 7. Focus on Clause Structure,
• Chapter 8. Cho Arcs,
• Chapter 9. Further Principles Governing the Distribution of Cho Arcs,
• Chapter 10. Ghost Arcs and Dummy Nominals,
• Chapter 11. Replacers and Anaphora,
• Chapter 12. Linear Precedence,
• Chapter 13. Grafts, Pioneers, and Closures,
• Chapter 14. APG Rules and Grammars,
• References,
• Index,