Abstract
A formalism for lexical projection in a Lexical Functional Grammar based syntactic processing environment, where lexical items may consist of more than one word, has been discussed. It is an extension of an earlier formalism that assumed single-worded lexical entities. It has been shown that traditional approaches of handling multi-worded lexical entities in an LFG environment are not quite suitable for Bangla, the language under study, because these approaches assume configurationality whereas Bangla is non-configurational. A “Supra-Lexical” level of analysis has been proposed and a formalism for such analyses introduced. The proposed formalism consists of two phases—an off-line specification phase and an implementation phase. Some tools that are required, along with the syntax for supra-lexical specification has been introduced with examples. Compilation of the specifications has been discussed.
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