A parser without a dictionary as a tool for research into French syntax

That is why the syntax of a natural language ~ not be described by the rules of the syntax of a formal language. And that is why a natural language cannot be parsed the same way as a formal language. To parse a natural language, it would be necessary to know its syntax, Thus, major difficulties in parsing a natural language are not algorithmic but linguistic. Here, I assume that natural language has a very high formal redundancy. In other words, morphosyntaclic clues are numerous enough to make deductions upon categories and relations in many converging ways. Research into French syntax then consists in d i scover ing these clues: morpho logy of words, a g r e e m e n t s , r e la t ive pos i t i ons of e l emen t s , segmentation in NPs, or in larger segments, typology of relations, structure of the relations net, formal and quantitative constraints upon this net.