Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214).

The first part of this thesis addresses the following questions: where in the syntactic tree, and at what representational level is an NP Case-checked. To this end, it presents converging data from French, Welsh and Irish, which suggest (i) that Case-checking may be accomplished under a variety of functional projections (subject to parametric variation); and (ii) that Case positions are--at least partially--independent of the A/A$ sp prime$-distinction. It furthermore presents evidence from Irish and Welsh--VSO languages in which NPs typically raise to their Case position only at LF--that NPs are, under certain conditions, Case-checked at S-structure. / Chapter 2 investigates word order and cliticisation in Standard French and Quebec French interrogatives and proposes a typology of interrogatives. Chapter 3 and 4 account for complementizer variation, pre-verbal particles and agreement patterns in Welsh and Irish under a Case-theoretic approach. / The second part of this thesis concerns the conditions on the availability of structural accusative Case. A theory of structural Case is proposed according to which accusativity is a configurational rather than a lexical property--i.e., resulting from syntactic geometry and not from lexical feature specifications on verbs. To this end, a comparison between the syntactic mapping of stative and perfective predicates in Irish and English is undertaken.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [169]-178).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Utrecht, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-343) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-203).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universiteit Utrecht, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-343) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 173 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-171). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

A transformação entre linguagens, ou entre diferentes formatos de uma mesma linguagem, é um assunto que desperta interesse há vários anos e desta forma alguns trabalhos tem surgido para tentar automatizar o processo de transformação entre notações diferentes. Este trabalho descreve as Gramáticas Transformacionais empregados para descrever as transformag6es necessárias para converter uma notação em uma linguagem fonte (LF) para uma notação equivalente em uma linguagem objeto (LO). Nesta Gramática é embutido o conceito de Gramáticas de Atributos, criando assim as Gramáticas Transformacionais com Atributos (GTAs). Para validação das GTAs é apresentado um protótipo de ferramenta transformacional, que gera um tradutor, de LF para LO, a partir da descrição da gramática da LF e das regras de transformações para a LO. Tanto a LF quanto a LO são gramáticas do tipo LALR(1). Como objetivo de construir a ferramenta mais genérica possível, foram realizados estudos sobre três ferramentas, com as quais as transformações são possíveis. São elas: YACC, SINLEX e GG. É feita uma breve descrição destas três ferramentas e uma comparação com o protótipo implementado. / Languages transformation or transformation among differents formats of the same language is a subject that , has had a lot of interest for t many years. Thus, research has been done aiming to automatize the proccess of transformation from one notation to another. This work describes the use of Transformation Grammars to describe the necessary transformations to convert from a Source Language (SL) notation to an equivalent Object Language (OL). The concept of Attribute Grammars is embbeded to these grammars, defining an Attributed Transformation Grammar (ATG). A transformation tool prototype to evaluate the ATGs is presented. This tool generates a translator from SL to OL using the SL grammar description and the corresponding transformation rules to the OL. Both the SL and OL are LALR(1) grammars. Studies on YACC, SINLEX and GG (tools wich allow transformations) were done trying to reach the most generic tool. A brief descriptions of these tools and a comparision with the prototype is presented.