André Dugas

OBLING: a tester for transformational grammars

Transformational grammars have developed with recent research in linguistics. They appear to be a powerful and explicit device for characterizing the description of sentences; they also meet conditions of adequacy that can be applied to check that a sentence, or a set of rules, is well-formed. A transformational grammar tester is part of a strategy for the selection of a well-formed grammar matching the data base. To put it more explicitly, a tester of this sort should provide the linguist a class of the possible grammars which concerns precisely the linguistic theory. These grammars have the form given by CUOMSKY in Aspects (see bibliograIShy).