13.1 Unification-based Grammars

As feature terms are the basic building blocks of UB-grammars, we start by discussing how they can be implemented in Oz. We then turn to the lexicon. Because feature-terms contain a lot more information than atoms for categories, the emergence of unification-based theories of grammar went hand-in-hand with a stark lexicalisation trend: information that earlier was part of the grammar proper (i.e. the syntactic rules and filters) got integrated in the lexicon. Practically this means that the lexicon contains a lot of information. To avoid redundancies and support maintenance, it therefore becomes important to structure the lexicon in some way. This is the object of the second section.



Denys Duchier, Claire Gardent and Joachim Niehren
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