Theorizing about the syntax of human language
Linguists standardly assume that a grammar is a formal system that ‘generates’ a set of derivations. But this is not the only way to formalize grammars. I sketch a different basis for syntactic theory: model-theoretic syntax (MTS). It defines grammars as finite sets of statements that are true (or...
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Associação Brasileira de Linguística
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Cadernos de Linguística |
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| Online Access: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/279 |