An order-theoretic approach to syntactic structure and transformations

Contemporary generative syntactic theory is recast in terms of the mathematical theory of partial orders and order-preserving mappings. Phrase markers are shown to be sets of syntactic objects partially ordered by set-theoretic containment, and by a formal relation analogous to traditional asymmetri...

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Main Author: Mailhot, Frédéric
Format: Others
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8482/1/MR10340.pdf
Mailhot, Frédéric <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Mailhot=3AFre==0301de==0301ric=3A=3A.html> (2005) An order-theoretic approach to syntactic structure and transformations. Masters thesis, Concordia University.