What is generative grammar? (theoretical overview)

Transformational generative grammar is one of the main theoretical frameworks in linguistics; it views language as a mental computational process.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Why is it called generative grammar?
1:18 Historical background
What does it try to explain?:
2:40 The poverty of stimulus problem
3:42 Grammaticality
4:14 Universal Grammar
Syntactic Analysis:
5:29 Phrase structure
6:31 Constituency
7:08 Merge and move
7:39 Syntactic trees (example: do insertion/move)
8:39 D-structure and S-structure
9:01 Principles and parameters
Criticisms:
10:32 Relevance for other areas of linguistics
11:02 Research methods
11:34 Definitions of recursion and UG
13:19 Semantics
13:52 Anglocentrism
14:29 Poverty of stimulus lacks evidence
15:36 Contributions
15:55 Outro
References:
Chomsky, N. (2006). Language and mind (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Ferreira, F. (2005). Psycholinguistics, formal grammars, and cognitive science. The Linguistic Review, 22(2-4).: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
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O’Grady, W., Archibald, J. and Katamba, F. (2011) Contemporary linguistics: An introduction. (2nd ed.). London: Pearson
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Constituency tests: people.umass.edu/nconstan/201...
Credits:
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