scholarly journals A Prolog-based approach to Arabic syntax and semantics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3A) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salah Alnajem ◽  
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A. M. Mutawa ◽  
Hanan AlMeer ◽  
Aseel AlQemlas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Semantic Networks ◽  
Computational Approach ◽  
Computational Semantics ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Definite Clause Grammar ◽  
Definite Clause

This paper introduces a computational approach to Arabic syntax. The approach uses the Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) framework. Semantic networks and frames were used to handle computational semantics using lambda notation. This was implemented in Prolog using Definite Clause Grammar (DCG) as a formalism for analyzing and generating syntactic structure.

scholarly journals Mixed projections and syntactic categories

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-357
Author(s):  
JOHN J. LOWE
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Syntactic Category ◽  
Sufficient Criterion ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Definition Of

I explore the bases of a ‘distributionalist’ approach to syntactic categories, that is, an approach that makes distinctions on the basis of purely syntactic (as opposed to, say, semantic) criteria. I focus on the phenomenon of ‘mixed projections’, where a syntactic phrase appears to display properties of more than one syntactic category, as analysed within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. I argue that of the three syntactic criteria called upon in the definition of syntactic categories within this approach, only one, the internal syntactic structure of a phrase, is a sufficient criterion for syntactic categorization. This leads to a more restricted definition of category mixing and implies a more restricted approach to categorization in general.

Typological and theoretical implications

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar ◽  
Mixed Categories

This chapter briefly considers the evidence for transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan in both a typological and a theoretical perspective. The fact that most transitive nouns and adjectives in early Indo-Aryan fall under the traditional heading of ‘agent nouns’ (subject-oriented formations) is typologically notable, since while action nouns with verbal government are well-known, the possibility of relatively verbal agent nouns has not always been acknowledged. The theoretical analysis is framed within Lexical-Functional Grammar, and makes use of the concept of ‘mixed’ categories to effect a clear formalization of transitive nouns and adjectives which captures their transitivity while allowing them to remain fundamentally nouns and adjectives in categorial terms.

Lexical-Functional Grammar

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Heine ◽  
Heiko Narrog ◽  
Ash Asudeh ◽  
Ida Toivonen
Keyword(s):  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Functional Grammar
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