French Order Without Order

To account for the semi-freeword order ofFrench, Unification Categorial Grammar is extended in two ways. First, verbal valencies are contained in a set rather than in a list. Second, type-raised NP's are described as two-sided functors. The new framework does not overgenerate i.e., it accepts all and only the sentences which are grammatical. This followspartly from the elimination of false lexical ambiguities - i.e., ambiguities introduced in order to account for all the possiblepositionsa word can be in within a sentence and partly from a system of features constraining the possible combinations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Gabriel G. Bès, Claire Gardent
• Keywords: EACL 1989, False Lexical Ambiguities, Natural Language Processing, Two-sided Functors, Unification Categorial Grammar