A formal universal of natural language grammar
A formal universal of natural language grammar
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自然语言语法的形式普遍性
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2020
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Mark Steedman
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Mark Steedman
这篇文章提出，任何自然语言结构的可能的词序组成的n个元素，其中每一个选择的类别为首的下一个，是普遍限制在跨语言和语言内的一个子类的排列上的“通用命令”1，...，n，如由它们的选择性限制所确定的。允许的子类被称为“可分离的”排列，并且在n中增长为大施罗德级数{1，2，6，22，90，394，1806，. }.这种普遍性被认为是形式的，因为它直接遵循组合范畴语法（CCG）的假设-特别是，所有CCG句法规则都服从组合投射原则，该原则将它们限制为适用于连续非空范畴的二元规则。本文从语言学上证实的四个元素Dem（指示性）、Num（erator）、A（形容词）、N（oun）的顺序中提出了支持这一主张的定量经验证据，这些证据已经结合格林伯格推定的第20个普遍意义的各种版本进行了检验。关于它们的顺序。日耳曼语动词簇和匈牙利语动词复合体以及其他构式中的词序变化也支持对可分排列的普遍限制。
This article proposes that the possible word orders for any natural language construction composed of n elements, each of which selects for the category headed by the next, are universally limited both across and within languages to a subclass of permutations on the ‘universal order of command’ 1, ... , n, as determined by their selectional restrictions. The permitted subclass is known as the ‘separable’ permutations, and grows in n as the large Schröder series {1, 2, 6, 22, 90, 394, 1806, ... }. This universal is identified as formal because it follows directly from the assumptions of combinatory categorial grammar (CCG)—in particular, from the fact that all CCG syntactic rules are subject to a combinatory projection principle that limits them to binary rules applying to contiguous nonempty categories. The article presents quantitative empirical evidence in support of this claim from the linguistically attested orders of the four elements Dem(onstrative), Num(erator), A(djective), N(oun), which have been examined in connection with various versions of Greenberg’s putative 20th universal concerning their order. A universal restriction to separable permutation is also supported by word-order variation in the Germanic verb cluster and in the Hungarian verb complex, among other constructions.*
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Ulrike
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Ulrike