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Structure of Language and Its Mathematical Aspects

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Roman Jakobson, Editor

Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics
Publication Year: 1961; Volume 12
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1312-6 (print); 978-0-8218-9227-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/psapm/012

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Articles

• W. V. Quine – Logic as a source of syntactical insights
• Noam Chomsky – On the notion “Rule of Grammar”
• Hilary Putnam – Some issues in the theory of grammar
• Henry Hiż – Congrammaticality, batteries of transformations and grammatical categories
• Nelson Goodman – Graphs for linguistics
• Haskell B. Curry – Some logical aspects of grammatical structure
• Yuen Ren Chao – Graphic and phonetic aspects of linguistic and mathematical symbols
• Murray Eden – On the formalization of handwriting
• Morris Halle – On the role of simplicity in linguistic descriptions
• Robert Abernathy – The problem of linguistic equivalence
• Hans. G. Herzberger – The joints of English
• Anthony G. Oettinger – Automatic syntactic analysis and the pushdown store
• Victor H. Yngve – The depth hypothesis
• Gorden E. Peterson and Frank Harary – Foundations in phonemic theory
• Joachim Lambek – On the calculus of syntactic types
• H. A. Gleason, Jr. – Genetic relationship among languages
• Benoit Mandelbrot – On the theory of word frequencies and on related Markovian models of discourse
• Charles F. Hockett – Grammar for the hearer
• Rulon Wells – A measure of subjective information
• Roman Jakobson – Linguistics and communication theory