A Grammar Writer's Cookbook (Volume 95)

Butt, Miriam; King, Tracy Holloway; Nino, Marma-Eugenia (Stanford University, California); Segond, Fridirique (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Stanf

ISBN 10: 1575861712 / ISBN 13: 9781575861715

Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999

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This handbook develops a methodology for writing and testing wide coverage, maintainable grammars. Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465. . 1999. 73rd ed. hardcover. . . . .

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• Titolo: A Grammar Writer's Cookbook (Volume 95)
• Editore: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575861712
• ISBN 13: 9781575861715
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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This handbook develops a methodology for writing and testing wide coverage, maintainable grammars. Parallel grammars for English, French, and German using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as a framework are used as an example. Parallel grammars are grammars with similar coverage in different languages which explore how similarly one can treat various phenomena cross-linguistically. This issue of the parallelism of the analyses is a central concern in maximizing portability and extendability of the analyses to other grammars and languages. For the grammar writer, this handbook provides a useful guide to the range of constructions to be considered in a wide-coverage grammar and the theoretical and practical issues which their implementation gives rise to. The interaction between theory and implementation is discussed, including the implementation of new theoretical developments in LFG such as coordination via distribution, functional uncertainty, and a featural analysis of auxiliaries.

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This handbook develops a methodology for writing and testing wide coverage, maintainable grammars. Parallel grammars for English, French, and German using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as a framework are used as an example.