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Article #2604Re: Syntactical *definition* of English
From: Greg Lee
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 03:34
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1988 03:34
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From article <6946@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd): " You may remember that Context Free Languages were discovered by a " Linguist, Noam Chomsky, not a computer scientist. At the time (mid " 1950's), there was great hope that a CFL, or at worst a CSL (context " sensitive language) could be found that would describe English, and " other such grammars developed for other natural languages. " Such efforts more or less met with utter and complete defeat in the late " 50's and 60's. Indeed so much so that some people working in understanding Context free phrase structure grammar lives! It's the basis of the best current theory of syntax, GPSG -- Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Syntactical *definition* of English Message-ID: <2509@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 20 Oct 88 03:34:08 GMT References: <6946@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 12