Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure
cmp-lg
2008-02-03 v1 Computation and Language
Abstract
A key problem in the description of language structure is to explain its contradictory properties of specificity and generality, the contrasting poles of formulaic prescription and generative productivity. I argue that this is possible if we accept analogy and similarity as the basic mechanisms of structural definition. As a specific example I discuss how it would be possible to use analogy to define a generative model of syntactic structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9608004,
title = {Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure},
author = {Robert John Freeman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9608004},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
6 pages, Postscript