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Thu Jun 6 2002

Books: Syntax, Maria Paula Santalla del Rio

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  • Maria Paula Santalla del Rio, A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis by M. Paula Santalla del Rio

    Message 1: A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis by M. Paula Santalla del Rio

    Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:14:43 +0200 (CEST)
    From: Maria Paula Santalla del Rio <mpsrlegalvan.usc.es>
    Subject: A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis by M. Paula Santalla del Rio


    Title: A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis

    Publication year: 2002

    Publisher: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Book URL: http://www.usc.es/spubl/lm14.html

    Author: M. Paula Santalla del Rio

    ABSTRACT:

    M. Paula Santalla del Rio, A Formal Grammar of Spanish for Phrase-level Analysis Applied to Information Retrieval, Lalia, Series Maior, 14, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, 2002.

    Linguistic fields: formal grammar and syntax Subject language: Spanish Written in: English This book describes in detail the formal grammar of Spanish developed, on the one hand, in the frame of the DoRo project (Esprit 22716), a research project in the area of Information Retrieval, specifically of Document Routing applications. On the other hand, the proposed grammar is conditioned by the analysis and the further automatic development of BDS (Base de Datos Sint�cticos-Syntatic Database:http://www.bds.usc.es), which, developed in the University of Santiago and especially organized to show data about verb government, contains the manual analysis of 160.000 clauses of current Spanish. Because of the first aim, this is a grammar for the identification of phrases, because of the second one, the grammar aims at identifying phrases to the extent that these do match linguistic sequences that fill syntactic functional slots at clause-level analysis. This duplicity of objectives is accounted for especially in Chapter 4 of the book, where we describe the necessary adjustments (required by either the simpler objective of identifying sequences of phrases or the, more complex, objective of integrating this identification in a clause-level grammar) in the formal description of the structures dealt with in previous chapters. The formalism used in the description is AGFL (Affix Grammars over Finite Lattices,http://www.cs.kun.nl/agfl) and the descriptive model underlying the description is based on constitutive and functional principles. After the first chapter of introduction, Chapter 2 is devoted to the verb phrase, intended as any combination of verb forms, auxiliaries or main verbs, and clitic pronouns that can express a combination of voice, impersonality and argument subcategorization (prepositional requirements included) functional in a real context and obtained from the possibilities that for such combinations shows the verb in the lexical level. Chapter 3 is subsequently devoted to the noun phrase, the pronoun phrase, the adverb phrase, the adjective phrase and the extension of the first two of them by means of determiners. It deals as well with nominalizations, clause constituents of clauses (infinitive clauses, that-clauses, etc.) and prepositional phrases. Chapter 4, as we already pointed out above in this message, deals with the necessary adjustments made in the formal structures described before ir order to integrate the phrase-level grammar in different environments of application, these adjustments concern primarily the treatment of ambiguity in the grammar.

    The book can be ordered from:

    Servicio de Publicaci�ns e Intercambio Cient�fico Campus universitario sur / E-15782 Santiago de Compostela Phone: +34 981 593500 / Fax: +34 981 593963 e-mail: spublicusc.es URL:http://www.usc.es/spubl

    Paperback: ISBN 84-8121-851-0, pages: 441, price: Spain: 25.24 Euros (VAT included) Foreign countries: 24.27 Euros (+ 3.85) COMMENT: 15% off for institutions




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