20.3494, Diss: Comp Ling: Drellishak: 'Widespread but Not Universal:...'

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Date: 16-Oct-2009
From: Scott Drellishak < sfd at u.washington.edu >
Subject: Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the typological coverage of the grammar matrix
 

	
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From: Scott Drellishak [sfd at u.washington.edu]
Subject: Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the typological coverage of the grammar matrix

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Institution: University of Washington 
Program: Department of Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2009 

Author: Scott Drellishak

Dissertation Title: Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the typological
coverage of the grammar matrix 

Dissertation URL:  http://students.washington.edu/sfd/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Emily Menon Bender
Sharon L. Hargus
Barbara Citko

Dissertation Abstract:

The LinGO Grammar Matrix provides a foundation for building grammars of
natural languages in HPSG. It includes a web-based questionnaire that
allows a linguist to describe a natural language, and then creates a
starter grammar for that language based on the answers. In this
dissertation, I describe improvements I have made to the typological
coverage of this system, including support for core case marking, agreement
in person, number, and gender, direct-inverse languages, and a lexicon
containing an arbitrarily large number of lexical types, lexical items, and
inflectional morphemes. 




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