TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morawietz,Frank
TI  - Two-Step Approaches to Natural Language Formalism
T2  - Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ,
SN  - 9783110178210
AV  - P128.F67 M 
U1  - 415/.01/51 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Computational linguistics
KW  - Formalization (Linguistics)
KW  - Computerlinguistik
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Unifikationsgrammatik
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Dissertation; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; The Classical Approach --; Two Steps Are Better Than One --; Conclusion and Outlook --; Appendix --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar. Through a careful introduction of mathematical techniques from logic, automata theory and universal algebra, the book aims at graduate students and researchers who want to learn more about tightly constrained logical approaches to natural language syntax. Therefore it features a complete and well illustrated introduction to the connection between declarative approaches formalized in monadic second-order logic (MSO) and generative ones formalized in various forms of automata as well as of tree grammars. Since MSO logic (on trees) yields only context-free languages, and at least the last two of the formalisms mentioned above clearly belong to the class of mildly context-sensitive formalisms, it becomes necessary to deal with the problem of the descriptive complexity of the formalisms involved in another way. The proposed genuinely new two-step approach overcomes this limitation of MSO logic while still retaining the desired tightly controlled formal properties
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197259
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110197259
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110197259/original
ER  -