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presupposition fails, we now supply a brief creation into Unification Grammar. on the grounds that all implementations mentioned during this quantity use PROLOG (with the exception of BlockjHaugeneder), we felt that it's going to even be worthy to give an explanation for the adaptation among unification in PROLOG and in UG. After the creation to UG we in brief summarize the most arguments for utilizing linguistic theories in average language processing. We finish with a quick precis of the contributions to this quantity. UNIFICATION GRAMMAR three characteristic constructions or advanced different types. Unification Grammar was once built by means of Martin Kay (Kay 1979). Martin Kay desired to supply an exact defmition (and implementation) of the suggestion of 'feature'. Linguists use beneficial properties at approximately all degrees of linguistic description. In phonetics, for example, the phoneme b is generally defined with the positive factors 'bilabial', 'voiced' and 'nasal'. with regards to b the 1st positive factors get the price +, the 3rd (nasal) will get the price -. characteristic­ worth pairs in phonology are commonly represented as a matrix. bilabial: + voiced: + I nasal: - [Feature matrix for b.] In syntax beneficial properties are used, for instance, to tell apart diversified noun periods. The Latin noun 'murus' will be characterised through the subsequent feature-value pairs: gender: masculin, quantity: singular, case: nominative, pred: murus. in addition to a matrix illustration one often fmds a graph illustration for characteristic price pairs. the sides of the graph are labelled through good points. The leaves denote the price of a feature.

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Until now, three sets of data had been available on SLM. The first, on which various papers by Smith and colleagues are based (for an overview see Smith et al. c. 2005). The second consists of a dozen very short narratives collected by Bichsel-Stettler in the 1980s, amounting perhaps to half an hour of recording, in the central areas of the country and Colombo (Bichsel-Stettler 1989). c. 2005). . See Ansaldo (2005a) for a fuller account. 14 (26) Umberto Ansaldo Table 2. Case in Kirinda Java12 Markers Semantic role Traditional case terminology Ø -ya] -na]/ -da] -pe -ka -ri] -le Agent Patient Experiencer, also Goal Possessor Location Instrument/ also Source Association Nominative Accusative Dative Possessive Locative Instrumental Comitative Table 3.

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