Describing São Tomense Using a Tree-Adjoining Meta-Grammar

Emmanuel Schang (1) , Denys Duchier (2) , Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou (1) , Yannick Parmentier (2) , Simon Petitjean (2)

1 LLL - Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique
2 LIFO - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans

In this paper, we show how the interactions between the tense, aspect and mood preverbal markers in São Tomense can be formally and concisely described at an abstract level, using the concept of projection. More precisely, we show how to encode the different valid orders of preverbal markers in an abstract description of a Tree-Adjoining Grammar of São Tomense. This description is written using the XMG meta-grammar language (Crabbé and Duchier, 2004).

Domains: Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Linguistics

Emmanuel Schang, Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean. Describing São Tomense Using a Tree-Adjoining Meta-Grammar. 11th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms (TAG+11), Sep 2012, Paris, France. pp.82-89. ⟨hal-00724847⟩