Formalizability As A Criterion: Linguistic Paradigms And The Annotation Of Simple Sentences In Typologically Contrasting Languages
Keywords:
Simple sentence, syntactic annotation, formalizability, generative grammarAbstract
The paper compares four contemporary linguistic paradigms generative, functional, cognitive, and typological as applied to the analysis of the simple sentence, and evaluates them against the criterion of formalizability for corpus annotation. Drawing on parallel English and Uzbek examples, it is argued that no single paradigm provides a comprehensive account of sentence structure and that an integrative framework offers the most productive basis for the syntactic annotation of typologically contrasting languages.
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