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A Typed Feature-based Grammar of Danish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Nancy L. Underwood
Nancy L. Underwood
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Center for Sprogteknologi, Njalsgade 80, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. Email: nancy@cst.ku.dk
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This paper presents an overview of the first broad coverage grammatical description of Danish in a Typed Feature Structure (TFS) based unification formalism inspired by HPSG. These linguistic specifications encompass phenomena within inflectional morphology, phrase structure and predicate argument structure, and have been developed with a view to implementation. The emphasis on implementability and re-usability of the specifications has led to the adoption of a rather leaner formal framework than that underlying HPSG. However, the paper shows that the adoption of such a framework does not lead to a loss of expressibility, but in fact enables certain phenomena, such as the interface between morphology and syntax and local discontinuities, to be treated in a simple and elegant fashion.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , June 1997 , pp. 31 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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