A speculation about what linguistic structure might be

Avery Andrews

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A speculation about what linguistic structure might be

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The chapter proposes that the sentence structures that play a large role in generative grammar can be regarded as 'aspirational' equivalence classes of proofs (or computations) that an utterance has certain properites, such as grammaticaity or meaning in a kind of context, or appropriateness in a genre. These are 'aspirational', becaue unlike in Proof Theory, where the investigators have a worked out formalization of the proofs that they are identifying in classes, in linguistics, the nature of these proofs or computations is a work in progress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modular Design of Grammar
Editors	I Wayan Arka, Ash Asudeh, and Tracy Holloway King
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	2-21
Volume	1
Edition	First
ISBN (Print)	9780192844842
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844842.003.0002
Publication status	Published - 2021

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