An Interaction Grammar of Interrogative and Relative Clauses in French
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We present a fairly complete grammar of interrogative and relative clauses in French, written in the formalism of Interaction Grammars. Interaction Grammars combine two key ideas: a grammar is viewed as a constraint system which is expressed through the notion of tree description, and the resource sensitivity of natural languages is used as a syntactic composition principle by means of a system of polarities.
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