Locality (linguistics)
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In linguistics
, locality refers to the proximity of elements of a linguistic structure. Theories of transformational grammar
attempt to explain restrictions on syntactic movement
using syntactic locality constraints.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, locality refers to the proximity of elements of a linguistic structure. Theories of transformational grammar
Transformational grammar
In linguistics, a transformational grammar or transformational-generative grammar is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars...
attempt to explain restrictions on syntactic movement
Syntactic movement
Syntactic movement is a fact that must be expressed somehow by every grammar of human languages and was first captured by structuralist linguists who called it "discontinuous constituents"; other terms are "displacement", or simply "movement"...
using syntactic locality constraints.