Tag: PHRASE STRUCTURE
Why Transformational Generative Grammar?
In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky claims that one of the main reasons for preferring a transformational grammar to a phrase structure grammar is that the former is, in a certain sense, simpler than the...
Limitations of Phrase Structure Grammar
The processes that pose problems to PS grammar are:ambiguities
synonymies
permutations
discontinuous constituents (E.g., particles)
remote relationship (E.g., those of cas...
The Constituent Structure
The PS grammar is an alternative way of expressing the information in a tree diagram employing rewrite rules. This is a method of structural description. It specifies the subunits and the level at whi...
Phrase Structure Grammar
The second of Chomsky's 'three models for language description' is Phrase Structure Grammar. A phrase structure grammar can generate any set of sentences that a finite state grammar can generate. But ...