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Network Grammar’s principles are enough to account for much of English syntax, exploding the myths of orthodox theory.
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NG30. Phrasal verbs (1)
In English the meaning of a verb may be modified by a following word. Not every verb allows this and for those that do, only a few…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG29. Debunking Network Grammar?
NG is different. No one established in linguistics will be easily won over. Most will dismiss it after a quick scan of NG01. Someone who…
Network Grammar
Nov 7, 2018
NG28. Showing C-switches in sentence analysis
NG28. Showing C-switches in sentence analysis
Up to this point in the blog, sentence analyses have assumed a C / C / C rule is always created for each word in each junction. In NG26 we…
Network Grammar
Nov 7, 2018
NG27. Pronoun interrogatives (3)
NG27. Pronoun interrogatives (3)
This post completes the analysis of Who…? sentences.
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Nov 7, 2018
NG26. Acquisition of C-switching rules
NG26. Acquisition of C-switching rules
Network Grammar has successfully analysed a variety of sentences. In NG24 we explored at the C-switching mechanism on which most analyses…
Network Grammar
Nov 7, 2018
NG25. Pronoun interrogatives (2)
NG25. Pronoun interrogatives (2)
Sentences listed in NG23 are now analysed. The pronoun Who relates to the other material in a sentence as agent, theme or goal. In every…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG24. The C-switching mechanism
NG24. The C-switching mechanism
We’ve already analysed a variety of simple sentences with Network Grammar. C-switching has been useful for delaying a delivery from a…
Network Grammar
Nov 7, 2018
NG23. Pronoun interrogatives (1)
NG23. Pronoun interrogatives (1)
Compared with those discussed in NG21, interrogatives with who or what are much more puzzling. My analyses concentrate on the pronoun who…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG22. Input and output
NG22. Input and output
As well as a general-purpose network containing acquired and innate knowledge, the mind/brain must have input/output channels for sensory…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG21. Interrogatives, polar and pro-adverb
NG21. Interrogatives, polar and pro-adverb
NG analysis is now applied to yes/no questions and to questions with how, why, when, where etc — i.e. where the answer would be an adjunct…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG20. Relations
Discussing the wider network beyond language knowledge, the blog has shown REL in most propositions as prop. But there must be other…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG19. Non-alternating ditransitives
NG19. Non-alternating ditransitives
We move away from give and analyse sentences with other ditransitives, ones that allow either the to-dative or the double-object form but…
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Nov 7, 2018
NG18. Progression through the network
NG18. Progression through the network
This post draws more conclusions about the network generally, with some particular points about the language knowledge it includes. Most…
Network Grammar
Nov 4, 2018
NG17. Finite verbs
NG17. Finite verbs
We’ve seen that a workable analysis for active and passive declaratives with (auxiliary)__(give participle) is possible without assuming…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG16. Activation
NG16. Activation
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Nov 4, 2018
NG15. More declaratives with give
NG15. More declaratives with give
This post looks at the order in which the arguments of a three-place predicate can appear in an English sentence.
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Nov 4, 2018
NG14. How concepts are elaborated
NG14. How concepts are elaborated
In NG12 there is progression along paths fanning out from a network node. This post looks in more detail at the idea.
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Nov 4, 2018
NG13. NG’s tabula rasa
NG13. NG’s tabula rasa
In this post a format is developed for analysing sentences using Network Grammar. The process is junction by junction. It shows meaning…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG12. The network
NG12. The network
We’ve said that the sharing of a concept between multiple propositions means propositions exist in a network. After illustrating the idea…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG11. Present continuous
NG11. Present continuous
This time we analyse sentence (12) junction by junction, showing that the correct propositions are delivered in a single pass.
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Nov 4, 2018
NG10. Why triangles?
NG10. Why triangles?
Ignoring neuroscience, Network Grammar is based on the analogy with computing set out in NG09. My claim is that knowledge is held in the…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG09. Art imitating life?
NG09. Art imitating life?
NG07 and NG08 must have been hard work for you. This post is easier but its message is just as important.
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Nov 4, 2018
NG08. How category-switching delays delivery
NG08. How category-switching delays delivery
Even in John kissed Lucy it may not be possible to deliver every proposition immediately. Suppose the sentence continues John kissed…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG07. Cognitive effect
NG07. Cognitive effect
Last time we looked at how a word-word junction delivers an atom of meaning to cognition. This time we’ll see how the set of junctions in…
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Nov 4, 2018
NG06. Language knowledge
NG06. Language knowledge
I have no quarrel with the idea that a language user has a mental lexicon. But I am impatient that no linguist has satisfactorily defined…
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Nov 4, 2018
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