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Linguistic Theory

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6 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Linguistic Theory.

  • Case grammar — A linguistic analysis in which a predicate selects a case frame of semantic roles that its participants fill beneath their surface syntactic realization.
  • Discourse grammar — A grammatical framework that models sentence grammar and discourse-organizing expressions as interacting but distinct domains of linguistic organization.
  • Meaning–text theory — A formal linguistic framework modeling language as a multilevel correspondence between semantic representations and surface text through intermediate syntactic and morphological structures.
  • Minimalist program — A generative-linguistic research program seeking the simplest computational account of language compatible with interface conditions.
  • Relational network theory — A connectionist linguistic theory that represents an individual's language as a stratified network of relational nodes and activation pathways linked to neurocognitive realization.
  • Universal grammar — The linguistic hypothesis that human language acquisition is constrained by an innate species-typical component defining possible grammars.