About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, Clitic, Parse tree, Syntactic ambiguity, Junction Grammar, Pleonasm, Preposition and postposition, Musical syntax, Minimalist program, Consonant mutation, His genitive, Generative semantics, RAS syndrome, Sentence-final particle, Sentence diagram, Pluractionality, Differential object marking, Metasyntax, Inverse copular constructions, Topic-prominent language, Biolinguistics, B construction, Redundancy, Nested quotation, Affix grammar, Heavy NP shift, Absolute construction, Scrambling, Government, Parasitic gap, Gapping, Trace, Antecedent-contained deletion, Extended Affix Grammar, Empty category principle, Lubke English, Simpler Syntax, Crossover effects, Zero, Emergent grammar, Grammatical category, Accessibility Hierarchy, Operator, Penthouse principle, Verb phrase ellipsis, Immediate constituent analysis, Microlinguistics, Danda, Time Manner Place, Nominative absolute, Subcategorization frame, Nanosyntax, Resultative, Sloppy identity, M-command, Sentence arrangement, Syntactic hierarchy, Syndeton, Grammatical relation, Syntactic change, Diathesis alternation, Reflexivity, Syntaxis, List of syntactic phenomena, Verbum dicendi. Excerpt: Junction Grammar is a descriptive model of language developed during the 1960s by Dr. Eldon G. Lytle (1936 - 2010)Source. It is based on the premise that the meaning of language can be described and precisely codified in terms of the way its component parts are put together with various kinds of junction operations. The model was used during the 60's and 70's in the attempt to create a functional computer-assisted translation system, and has also been used for linguistic analysis in the language instruction field. In 2005, an archive of articles written by junction grammarians was uploaded to the internet for the convenience of internet users...
