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Generative Grammar and Historical Linguistics

Sigurd, Bengt LU (1966) In Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Structural Linguistics 10(1). p.35-48
Abstract
It has been observed that some of the rules in a generative grammar of a language reflect changes that have occurred in the language and furthermore that the order of applying some rules reflects the chronology of the historical changes. 1 The synchronic grammar may reflect changes of various time depths and does not mirror the whole history or a certain period of the history completely. Some rules may reflect known historical changes, others may clearly not have any historical basis. As for some rules, for instance the basic phrase structure rules, we cannot tell whether they reflect early historical processes or not.
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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia. International Journal of Structural Linguistics
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10
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35 - 48
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Routledge
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1949-0763
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10.1080/03740463.1967.10411454
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English
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  title        = {{Generative Grammar and Historical Linguistics}},
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  doi          = {{10.1080/03740463.1967.10411454}},
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