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

While much has been written on asymmetric aspects of sentence structure, symmetric
aspects have been largely ignored, or claimed to be non-existent. Does symmetry in syntax …

This document describes a sizable grammar of English written in the TAG formalism and
implemented for use with the XTAG system. This report and the grammar described herein …

We recorded participants' eye movements while they read sentences containing verb‐
phrase coordination. Results showed evidence of immediate processing disruption when a …

Grammars are valuable resources for natural language processing. We divide the process of
grammar development into three tasks: selecting a formalism, defining the prototypes, and …

We survey a sequence of results relating model-theoretic and language-theoreticdefinability
over an infinite hierarchy of multi-dimensional tree-like structures and explore their …

Like many other international organizations, the World Trade Organization stands at a
crossroads. There is an obvious imbalance between the organization's dispute settlement …

Kaplan and Maxwell (1988) presented a theory of constituent coordination for LFG. Within
the multilevel architecture of LFG (Bresnan 1982, Kaplan 1987), this analysis handled an …

Many natural language understanding systems require efficient and accurate parsing
disambiguation to be effective. State of the art parsers owe their high performance in large …

Grammars are core elements of many NLP applications. In this paper, we present a system
that automatically extracts lexicalized grammars from annotated corpora. The data produced …