Maurice Gross

Maurice Gross ( born July 21, 1934 in Sedan, Ardennes department, † December 8, 2001 in Paris) was a French linguist and Romanist.

Life and work

Gross worked at the École polytechnique without linguistic education at the automatic translation, so I went in 1961 on a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to Noam Chomsky (→ Generative grammar). Back in France, he worked as a research computer scientist at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ). In 1964, he went a second time to the United States, this time to the University of Pennsylvania to Zellig S. Harris, with whom he worked for two years and he looked from then on as his linguistic foster father.

In 1967 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with the work analysis of the formal comparée complétives en français et en anglais and was a lecturer at the University of Aix -en- Provence, where he collaborated with Jean Stefanini. In 1969 he completed his habilitation at the University of Paris with the work of the constructions Lexique complétives and became a professor at the new University of Vincennes, then at the University of Paris VII

He founded the Laboratoire d' Automatique Documentaire 1968 et Linguistique ( LADL, in CNRS), and in 1977 the magazine Lingvisticae Investigationes.

Reception

Gross' computer-aided research on large amounts of language material give the image of language as a more idiomatic solidified for free manipulable instrument and are consistent with the testimony of John McHardy Sinclair (1933-2007) to the preponderance of the Idiom Principle ( phraseology ) over the open- Choice Principle ( free combinatorics ). Gross described the language as Lexique - Grammaire as a grammar fails the formalization of their bondage to the vocabulary. Who wants to describe language completely, so you have to bring an enormous amount of coded combinations.

Writings (selection )

As author

  • On the failure of generative grammar. In: Language. Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol 55 (1979 ), No. 4, pp. 859-885, ISSN 0097-8507.
  • Les phrases Figee en français. In L' information grammaticale, Vol 59 (1993 ), pp. 36-41, ISSN 0222-9338.
  • Etat du lexique - grammaire du français et perspectives d' extension. In: Sylvain Auroux et al. (Ed.): History of the Language Sciences, Vol 3, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2006, pp. 2122-2129, ISBN 978-3-11-016736-8.
  • Methode en syntaxe. Regime of constructions complétives. Hermann, Paris, 1975, ISBN 2-7056-1365- X ( zugl. habilitation thesis, Aix 1969).
  • Grammaire du français tional transformation. Cantilène, Malakoff 1986ff.
  • Mathematical linguistics. An Introduction ( Notions sur les aires formal program, 1967). Springer, Heidelberg 1971, ISBN 3-540-05201-1 ( with André Lentin )
  • Mathematical models in linguistics. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1972.

As editor

  • Syntaxe transformation nelle du français ( Langue Française, Vol 11). Larousse, Paris, 1971 ( together with Jean Stefanini ).
  • Méthode de grammaire française ( Initiation à la Linguistique / B, Vol 6). Klincksieck, Paris, 1976 ( together with Jean -Claude Chevalier ).
  • Études de syntaxe française ( Langue Française, Vol 39). Larousse, Paris, 1978 ( together with Christian Leclère )
  • Grammaire et histoire de la grammaire. Hommage à la mémoire de Jean Stefanini. University, Aix -en- Provence, 1988, ISBN 2-85399-200-4 ( with Claire Blanche- Benveniste and André Chervel ).
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