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过去二十年的语法理论可以归为两种不同的总的研究方向,即形式主义相对于功能主义,尽管形式主义把焦点放在对自然语言的形式特征的刻划上,功能主义却强调语言形式的信息传递功能。归入每个研究方向的有各式各样的理论。前者包括等式语法(equational gram-mar)(Sanders),Montague 语法(Dowty,Partee),关系语法(relational grammar)(Perl-mutter),广义短语语法(generalized phrase structure grammar)(Pullum),词汇功能语法(le-xical functional grammar)(Bresnan),范畴语法(categorial grammar)(Bach,Dowty,Par-
The past two decades of grammatical theory can be grouped into two different general areas of research: formalism versus functionalism. Although formalism focuses on the delineation of the formal features of natural language, functionalism emphasizes language Form of information transfer function. There is a wide variety of theories that fall into each research direction. The former includes equational gram-mar, Dowty, relational grammar, generalized phrase structure grammar, lexical function Le-xical functional grammar (Bresnan), categorial grammar (Bach, Dowty, Par-