[LFG] XLE RULES formalism question

[Agnieszka Patejuk]

Hi Damir,

You might want to check this part of XLE documentation
(meta-categories section):

http://www2.parc.com/isl/groups/nltt/xle/doc/notations.html#N3.1

Best,
Agnieszka


On 27 September 2016 at 18:57, Damir Cavar <damir at linguistlist.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a question with respect to the XLE grammar RULES section. We found in
> some grammar the following definitions in the RULES section:
>
> ADVERBIAL = { PP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT);
>           | AdvP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT);
>           | DP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT)
>                 (! PSEM) =c temp ;
>           | CP: ! $ (^ ADJUNCT)
>                 (! ADJUNCT $ GLOSS TRANS) = if }
>           (INTERNALPUNCT).
>
>    PREPOBJ = { PP: (^ OBJ) = !
>           | DP: (^ OBJ) = ! }.
>
>
> Is the “=“ in these rules equivalent to “—>” or is this something else. What
> is the semantics, if these two are different? In the documentation I have
> not seen the use of “=“. Is there some more detailed or extended
> documentation that goes into more such details?
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> DC
>
>
>
>
>
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