Grammar and information: an investigation in linguistic metatheory

Thomas A. Ryckman

Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1986. (Marginalia are from an editorial review contemplating publication.)

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Abstract

Table of Contents; acknowledgements

Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: A reconsideration of some issues in structural linguistics

Chapter III: Two proposals concerning the role of meaning in linguistic analysis and the justification of grammars

Chapter IV: Language structure, linguistic capacities, and the evolution of Generative Grammar from formalism to mentalism

Chapter V: Information, meaning, and the representation of information as language structure

Chapter VI: Informational structures of language in a subfield of a science

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