Encapsulation of morphology and syntax as separate domains of representation and processing causes many problems at the interfaces, such as rebracketing, reordering, and tampering with the representations of the information domains. These recomputations usually arise due to mismatches with the semantic bracketing. We propose a lexicalist framework based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) t...

PROLEG is a famous computer program supporting attorneys in the legal inference process. However, input of this system expressed Prolog, which most lawyers are not familiar with. This technical barrier serious problem for using real context. A natural language interface one solutions to problem. We have developed prototype such an interface. paper describes and its current performance. The tran...

The Berkeley FrameNet project aims at implementing Fillmore’s Frame Semantics program on a broad empirical basis. The syntactic environments of words in corpora are systematically aligned with the semantic frames evoked by the words. It is Fillmore’s vision that such a collection of valency data can pave the way for an empirically grounded theory of the syntax-semantics interface. In this artic...

The following main ideas have been pointed out and put to work within our paper: (a) Information Structure (IS) theories (topic-focus, theme-rheme, background-contrast, informational and contrastive focus, focus projection rules, etc.) on text are shown to behave currently as a consistent linguistic tool that can stand behind a correct, language and contextual-depending, mapping of text into sp...

The understanding of sentences involves not only the retrieval of the meaning of single words, but the identification of the relation between a verb and its arguments. The way the brain manages to process word meaning and syntactic relations during language comprehension on-line still is a matter of debate. Here we review the different views discussed in the literature and report data from cruc...

This thesis develops a new approach to the syntax–prosody interface and establishes the integration of the phonological module into Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). LFG is a modular grammar theory, which (among other questions) is interested in the relation between form and meaning, i.e., between what is said/perceived and what is intended/understood. An important factor with respect to this q...

• Introduction: What is information structure and basic notions • Historical development of information structure approaches (largely based on von Heusinger 1999, ch. 3) – The Beginnings of Information Structure – The Prague School – Halliday and the American structuralism – Information Packaging – Information Structure in Generative Grammar • The Semantics of Information Structure – Structured...