Stanley Starosta

The case for lexicase : an outline of lexicase grammatical theory

Foreword Richard Hudson Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Formal Properties of Lexicase Theory 2 Pan-Lexicalism 3 Formalization 4 Roles and Relations 5 Case Forms and Case Making 6 Constructions and Classes 7 Conclusion Bibliography Index

Lexicase parsing: a lexicon-driven approach to syntactic analysis

This paper presents a lexicon-based approach to syntactic analysis, Lexicase, and applies it to a lexicon-driven computational parsing system. The basic descriptive mechanism in a Lexicase grammar is lexical features. The properties of lexical items are represented by contextual and non-contextual features, and generalizations are expressed as relationships among sets of these features and among sets of lexical entries. Syntactic tree structures are representaed as notworks of pairwise dependency relationships among the words in a sentence. Possible dependencies are marked as contextual features on individual lexical items, and Lexicase parsing is a process of picking out words in a string and attaching dependents to them in accordance with their contextual features. Lexicase is an appropriate vehicle for parsing because Lexicase analyses are monostratal, flat, and relatively non-abstract, and it is well suited to machine translation because grammatical representations for corresponding sentences in two languages will be very similar to each other in structure and inter-constituent relations, and thus far easier to interconvert.

Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics

1. Linguistics: the scientific study of language 2. The structure of language 3. The sounds of language 4. Grammar: general principles 5. Grammatical units 6. Grammatical structure 7. Grammatical categories 8. Grammatical functions 9. Semantics: general principles 10. Semantic structure Notes and references Addenda Bibliography Table of symbols and notational conventions Index of proper names Index of subjects.