Categorial grammar
- Using categorial grammar, parse the sentence: 'Mary threw the ball'
- Using categorial grammar, what category would you assign to 'wanna' in 'I wanna see it'?
- What category would you assign to the phrase: 'I've been to the...'
- What is the limit on the size of categories that can be expressed with categorial grammar? Explain your answer.
- Name one advantages of categorial grammar over traditional phrase-structure rules.
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Unification
- Define a lexical entry for the word 'saw' in the phrase 'Mary saw the cake'. Feel free to express the constraints and the result in informal language.
- How does unification work?
- In a unification grammar, how can we express the fact that 'the the dog' is unacceptable?
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Inheritance
- How is it that lexical approaches to grammar can be complex?
- How can we address the problem of complexity in lexically oriented grammars?
- Given the illustration, reconstruct the whole entry for 'Mary'.
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