Transformational grammar
by Andrew Radford · first published 1989
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For pure linguistics I'd recommend Transformational Grammar by Andrew Radford and Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. And for NLP, Dan Jurafski and James H. Martin's Speech and Language Processing is excellent, and there are great projects…
on “Ask HN: What single book is the best intro to your field for laypeople?” ↗…dad's Neurolinguistic Programming books in a box. Now (the other) NLP gets a lot of mostly-deserved flak for being pseudoscientific, but I understood it then pretty well (it grew out of the same Chomsky Transformational Grammar that informs programming language design, eh) and I can vouch for it's rigour and effectiveness. In a nutshell these folks have discovered the "operating system" of the mind. The problem there is that…
…vol I and II https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/964154.The_Structure_of_... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821993.The_Structure_of_... Essentially, by modelling therapists' verbal patterns using Transformational Grammar a formal theory of mind was evolved that has lead to sophisticated algorithms for various kinds of psychological change. Unfortunately, a lot of pseudo-science and "woo" has grown up around it, but please…
on “The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius” ↗…arena) and self-help deal with ideas that are really grounded in philosophy proper. Philosophy is the original psychology and the original self-help. FWIW the origins of NLP are grounded in Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. That's not philosophy, of course, but it's something. (Computer language hierarchy stems from the same linguistic modeling.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy…
on “Ask HN: Are books worth it?” ↗…it pseudo-science.) In brief, it started with linguistic analysis of transcripts of videos of therapy session with some very talented and successful therapists. (The analysis was informed by the same Transformational Grammar of Chomsky that also informs formal language design.) It was noticed that some people tend to favor "preferred" sensory systems, and a model of subjective experience was developed that allowed for eliciting…
on “Not everyone has an internal monologue” ↗…original work grew out of linguistic analysis of particularly effective therapists (Satir, Perls, Erikson), they were literally transcribing therapy sessions and started applying ideas from Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. > What resources could you provide on this for a skeptical cognitive scientist? First of all, I'm sorry to say that most of the stuff on the Internet about (the other) NLP seems to be fluffy and nonscientific…