A Tree Adjoining Grammar Analysis of the Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts

COLING/ACL 2006 - TAG+8: 8th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 33-40

  Han, Chung Hye ^a   Hedberg, Nancy ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; FORESTRY; SEMANTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPONENT TREE; COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS; DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS; MULTICOMPONENTS; SEMANTIC UNITS; SYNCHRONOUS TREE-ADJOINING GRAMMARS; TREE ADJOINING GRAMMARS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84859886150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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