User:IsabelRM 0722/Autonomy of syntax/Bibliography

You will be compiling your bibliography and creating an outline of the changes you will make in this sandbox.

Outline of proposed changes
* Brainstorming as well as an outline, therefore, most likely not all of these ideas will be included.

Additions (source 1):

-Add a section discussing the controversies between formalist and functionalist linguistics

-->Functionalist linguistic theories: Combining both an understanding of the data patterns with a semantic understanding, which is independent of language and comes from natural cognitive processes. These two together will provide the best explanation of grammaticality.

-->Gives examples of how the constructional schema of a sentence can be correct, but when inconsistencies at the semantic level are encountered, the sentence will still lack meaning, indicative of semantics' role in syntax.

Example:

colorless green ideas sleep furiously (does follow a constructional schema, but still hard to assign meaning)

colorless green ideas sleeps furiously (grammatically incorrect because it is not following a constructional schema)

-->Chomsky's theories on syntax still hold up though. In some occasions, semantics actually is detrimental to the syntactic structure.

Example:

"No woman denies that she has written a best-selling novel"

Bound variable anaphora - the relationship between two words when one word refers back to the other word for meaning, such as pronoun and a noun phrase.

--This is an example of when syntactic structure was most important because semantically, "she" can be associated with "no woman" which is incorrect, but syntactically, this would be an impossible correlation.

Additions (source 2):

-"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is also included in this source.

Add a small paragraph or section explaining generative grammar and it's correlation to the autonomy of syntax

--> Include the defining characteristics listed in this source (possibly direct quote in order to use the same terminology)

Additions (source 3)

--> Examples of different models that both agree and disagree with the Autonomy of Syntax