BAPFOHL
March 21, 2001
How language works (especially syntax)


1. The wonders of grammar

• An on-line class all about syntax



• One of our Institute's classes about syntax
  (It should be called "¥yªk¾Ç"!)

2. This sentence is a tree

• Play English "Mad Libs" on the WWW!



• My notes about phrase structure from my old undergrad linguistics class



• The "Chomskybot":
  a program that uses the slot-filling method to imitate Chomsky's terrible writing style



• A program that draws phrase structure trees!

3. What structure does this sentence have?

• My notes about transformations from my old undergrad linguistics class

4. Keeping syntax under control

• A description of Chomsky's constraint-based theory of syntax
  (called "government and binding theory")

5. Does language really work this way?

• My old class about how to make models for language
  (especially Turing machines vs. connectionism)



• One of our Institute's courses on cognitive linguistics
  (a more functionalist kind of linguistics)