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Papers on Syntax

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  • © 1981

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Authors:
  1. Zellig S. Harris
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Editors:
  1. Henry Hiż
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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 14)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Structural Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Distributional Structure

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 3-22

    3. Morpheme Alternants in Linguistic Analysis

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 23-35

    4. Discontinuous Morphemes

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 36-44

    5. From Morpheme to Utterance

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 45-70

    6. Structural Restatements: I

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 71-88

    7. Structural Restatements: II

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 89-104

  3. Transformational Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Discourse Analysis

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 107-142

    3. Co-Occurrence and Transformation in Linguistic Structure

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 143-210

    4. The Elementary Transformations

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 211-235

    5. Transformational Theory

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 236-280

    6. Decomposition Lattices

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 281-290

  4. Operator Grammar

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
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    2. The Two Systems of Grammar: Report and Paraphrase

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 293-351

    3. A Theory of Language Structure

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 352-376

    4. On a Theory of Language

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 377-391

    5. Grammar on Mathematical Principles

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 392-411

    6. Operator Grammar of English

      • Zellig S. Harris
      Pages 412-435
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About this book

The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram­ mar. These three are not opposing views or independent assumptions about language. Rather, they are successive stages of investigation into the word­ combinations which constitue the sentences of a language in contrast to those which do not. Throughout, the goal has been to find the systemati­ cities of these combinations, and then to obtain each sentence in a uniform way from its parts. In structural analysis, the parts were words (simple or complex, belonging to particular classes) or particular sequences of these. In transformational analysis, it is found that the parts of a sentence are elementary sentences, whose parts in turn are simple words of particular classes. The relation between these two analyses is seen in the existence of an intermediate stage between the two, presented in paper 4, From Morpheme to Utterance. A further intermediate stage is presented in the writer's String Analysis of Sentence Structure, Papers on Formal Linguistics I, Mouton, The Hague 1962 (though it was developed after transformations, as a syntactic rep­ resentation for computational analysis). Generalization of both of these analyses leads to operator grammar, in which each sentence is derived in a uniform way as a partial ordering of the originally simple words which enter into it: Each step (least upper bound) of the partial ordering (of a word requiring another) forms a sentence which is a component of the sentence being analyzed.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Papers on Syntax

  • Authors: Zellig S. Harris

  • Editors: Henry Hiż

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8467-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1266-0Published: 31 October 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1267-7Published: 31 October 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8467-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 480

  • Topics: Syntax, Semantics

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