Embedding (linguistics)
Embedding (English embedding ) in linguistics (means Linguistics ) the insertion of a subordinate linguistic unit in a higher-level, higher rank. The term comes from the generative transformation grammar , where it stands for the part of the rule system that ensures that one sentence structure is inserted into another, i.e. embedded . This creates dependent syntactic structures that are inserted into higher-ranking structures. The corresponding operations are accordingly called embedding transformations .
Example of an embedding
It is based on the system of rules of early generative transformation grammar . In a very simplified way, one can describe their functionality as follows: In their rule system, simple sentence structures are created (“generated”); these are sentence structures that correspond to very simple sentences, but in an abstract form. Such a sentence structure could correspond to the sentence “Peter is sick”, another to the sentence “Peter is absent from school today”. Now you can embed the structure of the first of these two sentences in that of the second, so that a sentence like “Peter is absent from school today because he is sick” emerges. So here a sentence would be embedded in another sentence, whereby the first has become the dependent sentence. Embedding now means the relationship that exists between the dependent and the superordinate subset (= carrier rate ) of the total rate.
The term embedding can also be used in the event that one sentence element or part of one sentence element is subordinate to another.
literature
- Karl-Dieter Bünting: Introduction to Linguistics. 9th edition. Athenaeum, Königstein 1981, p. 142. ISBN 3-7610-2011-2 .
- Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 (keyword: "embedding").
- Wilfried Kürschner: Grammatical Compendium. 3. Edition. Francke: Tübingen & Basel 1997, pp. 265-267. ISBN 3-8252-1526-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bünting, p. 142.
