Linguistics & Language · Morphology & Syntax
A topic within Morphology & Syntax, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Rulon S. Wells
Formalises the procedure for splitting a sentence into nested constituent parts, turning an informal parsing intuition into an explicit method that later phrase-structure grammars built on directly.
Noam Chomsky
Argues that a noun like 'destruction' and the verb it derives from share an underlying structure best captured by a general X-bar schema for phrases, rather than by a transformation deriving the noun from a sentence.