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20 - Formalization of RRG Syntax

from Part Four - Applications of RRG

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2023

By
Laura Kallmeyer  and
Rainer Osswald
Edited by
Delia Bentley ,
Ricardo Mairal Usón ,
Wataru Nakamura  and
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Delia Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Ricardo Mairal Usón
Affiliation:
Universidad National de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Wataru Nakamura
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr
Affiliation:
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
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Summary

The goal of this chapter is to present RRG as a formalized grammatical theory which puts emphasis on mathematical and logical rigour. It is shown how the syntactic dimension of RRG can be formally expressed as a tree rewriting grammar consisting of elementary tree templates that can be combined with larger syntactic units by three modes of composition: substitution, adjunction and wrapping. Special attention is given to the structure and derivation of extraction constructions and complex sentences.

Keywords

Role and Reference Grammargrammar formalismtree rewriting
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The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar , pp. 737 - 784
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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