SPECIFICATION AND UTILIZATION OF A TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
Peter S. Rosenbaum, Fred Blair, D. Lieberman, D. Lochak, Paul Martin Postal · 1966
The report consists of four parts: (1) 'English Grammar II' by Peter S. Rosenbaum--Our current grammar of English is presented in full, with sample deep structures and transformational derivational histories provided to illustrate the generative power of the grammar. (2) 'Learnability of a Transformationally Generated Subset of English' by Peter S. Rosenbaum--This paper discusses a joint project of IBM Research and the New York University Department of Psychology studying the usability and learnability of the subset of English sentences generated by English Grammar II. (3) 'Coordination Reduction' by Paul M. Postal--This paper proposes and justifies a schema for coordination reduction in English. Also presented is a computer program written in LISP 1.5 which simulates the coordination reduction schema. (4) 'On Some Alternative Sets of Dependency Rules Equivalent to the Rewriting Rules of Grammar II' by Jane J. Robinson--This paper considers the alternative use of a dependency grammar in generating strings and terminal categories. (Author)