1.1 Two Conceptions of Grammar The reader may wonder, why would a college offer
courses on grammar–a topic that is usually thought of as part of junior high school …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Modern grammar development platforms often support multiple devices for representing
properties of a natural language, giving the grammar writer some freedom in implementing …

In this paper, we have proposed novel methods for robust parsing that integrate the flexibility
of linguistically motivated lexical descriptions with the robustness of statistical techniques …

In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an
approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the …

DTG are designed to share some of the advantages of TAG while overcoming some of its
limitations. DTG involve two composition operations called subsertion and sister-adjunction …

Abstract Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars have proved useful for NLP. However,
numerous redundancy problems face LTAGs developers, as highlighted by Vijay-Shanker …

Tree-adjoining grammar (TAG) and lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar (LTAG), have
endured extensive study, in terms of formal properties and linguistic relevance. TAG and …

A long-standing tension in Minimalist syntax is that between the structure-building
operations Merge and Move on the one hand and the constraints restricting the shape of the …

Subregular linguistics is a fairly new approach that seeks a deeper understanding of
language by combining the rigor of formal grammar with the empirical sophistication of …