Syntactica: NeXTStep Edition

Larson, Richard K., Warren, David S., Silva, Juliana Freire

ISBN 10: 0262621061 / ISBN 13: 9780262621069

Published by The MIT Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Syntactica: NeXTStep Edition
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262621061
• ISBN 13: 9780262621069
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This manual—and accompanying software—introduces Syntactica, an innovative teaching tool that is designed to let the user explore natural language structure in an engaging, interactive way.

Syntactica, which was produced as part of a National Science Foundation initiative for improving instruction in linguistics, provides a simple interface for creating grammars, viewing the structures (trees) that they assign to natural language expressions, and transforming those structures by grammatical operations. A guiding theme in its development is the study of linguistics as a way to further scientific reasoning skills.

While designed primarily for undergraduate students, Syntactica can also be used by professionals as a "derivation calculator" in following out complex syntactic derivations involving many steps and operations. Furthermore, the graphical interface can be used to create high-quality, camera-ready tree images that can be scaled and edited, and incorporated into publications and presentations.

Manual plus NeXTStep software for PCs and NeXTStations running NeXTStep version 3.2 or higher.

About the Author

Richard K. Larson is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook. David S. Warren is Professor of Computer Science at SUNY, Stony Brook. Juliana Freire de Lima e Silva is a graduate student in Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook. Konstantinos Sagonas is Visiting Researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.