Widespread but not universal: Improving the typological coverage of the Grammar Matrix
by Drellishak, Scott, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 2009, 255 pages; 3370489

Abstract:

The LinGO Grammar Matrix provides a foundation for building grammars of natural languages in HPSG. It includes a web-based questionnaire that allows a linguist to describe a natural language, and then creates a starter grammar for that language based on the answers. In this dissertation, I describe improvements I have made to the typological coverage of this system, including support for core case marking, agreement in person, number, and gender, direct-inverse languages, and a lexicon containing an arbitrarily large number of lexical types, lexical items, and inflectional morphemes.

 
AdviserEmily M. Bender
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SourceDAI/A 70-08, p. , Dec 2009
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsLinguistics; Computer science
Publication Number3370489
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