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Over the last few years, research in theoretical linguistics has been marked by a significant change of perspective with regard to the conception of natural language grammars. Often characterized as a shift in focus from a conception of grammar as a set of rules to a conception of grammars as a set of interactive principles of well-formedness and parameters (in short rule-based vs. principle-based grammars), this change has been primarily triggered by the search for a more explanatory theory. It took place gradually, extending from the first attempts to reduce the excessive generative power of the transformational component of generative grammars, in the early ’70s, to the more recent developments affecting the phrase-structure component of the grammar1.
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Wehrli, E. (1988). Parsing with a GB-Grammar. In: Reyle, U., Rohrer, C. (eds) Natural Language Parsing and Linguistic Theories. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1337-0_7
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