Re: X-Bar Theory
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 19:34 |
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NeoVirus@BELLSOUTH.NET writes:
> I was reading up on ways to diagram syntax designs, and two different ways of
> doing this came up, BNF (very complicated to look at, i think) and the X-Bar
> Theory. I searched google for X-Bar theory, and all i could find was (very)
> skeletal information on it. I was wondering if any of you have had experiance
> with this, or happen to know where I can find detailed information on it.
X-Bar is pretty easy:
Take a sentence like:
We saw the man who John was talking to.
IP
----------
NP IP
| ---------
We Infl VP
| ---------------
PAST V NP
| ------------
see N CP
| ----------
the man C IP
| ----------
who NP IP
| -----------
John AUXP VP
-------- ---------
Infl AUX V PP
| | | ------
PAST Prog. talk P NP
| |
to (t)
That's just an example...I'm not sure on the verbs, I've seen alot of differing notations for them.
Unfortunately I can't recommend any books, since I've been looking myself.
Hopefully someone out there knows of some.
Elliott Lash.
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