Relational Grammar

关系语法

A development of generative linguistic thinking of the mid-1970s which takes as central the notion of grammatical relations, rather than the categorial terms of standard phrase-markers. The approach is in marked contrast with most other versions of generative grammar, where the emphasis is on syntactic categories such as NP and VP, and on linear ordering, syntactic relations being specifiable only derivatively.

本世纪70年代中期发展起来的一种生成语言学思潮，其中心概念是语法关系而不是标准短语标记的范畴名。这种语法与其他生成语法模型有明显对立，后者强调NP和VP这类句法范畴和线性序次，句法关系只是通过派生来规定。