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The English auxiliaries: A relational network description

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Peter A. Reich
Peter A. Reich*
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University of Toronto
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This is the second of two papers comparing relational network theory with transformational theory. In Reich 1970b we defined some basic nodes and compared relational network theory with a subset of transformational theory which is commonly acknowledged to be linguistically inadequate. In this paper we shall review the types of problems which context-free phrase-structure grammars cannot adequately handle. We shall then show that each of these problems occurs in that portion of English grammar which is concerned with the English auxiliaries; thus a good test of any proposed grammatical theory is whether or not it can be used to describe a grammar of the auxiliaries in an acceptable way. Finally, we shall describe in detail a relational network grammar of the auxiliaries and attempt to demonstrate that relational network theory passes this test.

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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , Fall 1970 , pp. 18 - 50
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1970

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