Grammar frameworks

theory in linguistics

theory

formal grammar in which components of production rules may be surrounded by a contextual symbols

class of modern grammatical theories that are all based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the constituency relation), founded by Lucien Tesnière

linguistic research program proposed by N. Chomsky; radically revises the Government and Binding approach; asserts that Universal Grammar is a “perfect” system, i.e. optimal according to several global metrics; abandons concepts such as government

book by Antonio de Nebrija

Family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics

framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages

grammar framework in theoretical linguistics with constraint-based and generative varieties, initiated by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan in the 1970s

approaches to the study of language that see functionality of language and its elements to be the key to understanding linguistic processes and structures

theory of syntax and a phrase structure grammar in the tradition of transformational grammar developed principally by Noam Chomsky in the 1980s

grammar formalism

generative linguistics framework in which a natural language's syntax is described by general “principles” and specific “parameters” that are either turned on or off for particular languages; formulated by N. Chomsky and H. Lasnik in the 1980s

model of grammar motivated by functions, originally developed by Simon C. Dik

form of grammatical description originated by Michael Halliday

generalization of context-free grammars in that nonterminals are equipped with lists of flags, or index symbols

framework for describing the syntax and semantics of natural languages

research program in theoretical linguistics

Lexicon-Grammar is a method and a praxis of formalized description of human languages, which considers that the systematic investigation of lexical entries is presently the main challenge of the scientific study of languages. The development of Lexicon-Grammar began in the late 1960s under Maurice Gross.

natural language processing methodology

model of grammar developed by William Foley and Robert Van Valin, Jr

rewrite rule used to describe a given language's syntax, used to break down a natural language sentence into its syntactic categories (both lexical and phrasal); used in transformational grammar; first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957

grammar formalism based on combinatory logic

family of formalisms in natural language syntax motivated by the principle of compositionality and organized according to the view that syntactic constituents should generally combine as functions or according to a function-argument relationship