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Is the commutative CFG in the mathematical linguistics literature?
I am shocked that Linguists have not given a reasonably small canonical computationally precise representation of any natural language yet, so I wrote a recent EL&U post to explain how one does ...
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Semantic head vs Syntactic head parsing
I've run into "semantic head parsing" and "syntactic head parsing" and while I think I have a feel for the difference, I was wondering if anyone could give a more concrete definition or reference to ...
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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
What are the other common approaches to study syntax?
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