Abstract
This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core. The paper provides a general motivation for doing theoretical linguistics the way it is done in the CoreGram project and therefore is not targeted at computational linguists exclusively. I argue for a constraint-based approach to language rather than a generative-enumerative one and discuss issues of formalization. Recent advantages in the language acquisition research are mentioned and conclusions on how theories should be constructed are drawn. The paper discusses some of the highlights in the implemented grammars, gives a brief overview of central theoretical concepts and their implementation in TRALE and compares the CoreGram project with other multilingual grammar engineering projects.
Highlights
This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core
The goal of the CoreGram project is to contribute to a better understanding of the constraints for specific human languages and of the constraints holding for human language in general or for certain language groups
To reach this goal we develop several large-scale computer-processable grammar fragments of several typologically diverse languages using a common core grammar
Summary
German Grammar Group, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin abstract. This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common core. The goal of the CoreGram project is to contribute to a better understanding of the constraints for specific human languages and of the constraints holding for human language in general or for certain language groups To reach this goal we develop several large-scale computer-processable grammar fragments of several typologically diverse languages using a common core grammar. Mandarin Chinese (Lipenkova 2009; Müller and Lipenkova 2009, 2013, In Preparation) These languages belong to diverse language families (Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Sino-Tibetian), and among the Indo-European languages, the languages belong to different groups (Germanic, Romance, IndoIranian). Danish English German Yiddish French Spanish Hindi Persian Maltese Mandarin Chinese [ 22 ]
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