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The study of the internal structure of expressions, especially between words and phrases, and the principles and processes that determine it. This includes words order, but also the grammatical relations that hold between words, as well as structural ambiguity, binding, reference, and similar issues. Common approaches are numerous phrase structure grammars (GPSG, HPSG, LFG, G&B, X-bar, Minimalism, ...) and, on the other hand, dependency grammars.

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What are the limitations of CCGs?

I've read that context free grammar (CFG) has a wide variety of natural language phenomena that it can't model, such as ellipsis I gave Tom a cake, and John an hamburger And that combinatory cat …
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Syntactic models than span across multiple sentences

I've been reading quite a lot about grammars, and it seem that all of the models I encountered focus on a single sentence level syntax. …
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Syntax as error-correction-code

I vaguely recall from my academic studies that a professor mentioned that the syntax of sentence could be seen as error-correction-code in signal processing. … In other words, from a pragmatic view - syntax is used as a convention to correct mistakes of the listener in a noisy environment. This idea is fascinating, but I cannot find a reference for it. …
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