Auxiliaries and Clitics in French UCG Grammar

Karine Kray-Baschung (1) , Gabriel G. Bès (1) , Annick Corluy (2) , Thierry Guillotin (2)

1 GRIL - Groupe de recherche dans les industries de la langue
2 Laboratoires de Marcoussis

French auxiliaries and clitics have been analysed in the frame of U.C.G. (Unification Categorial Grammar). Concatenation of a functor sign and an adjacent argument sign is the basic operation of the model; unification allows (a) to verify if constraints on concatenation are respected; (b) to produce a flow of information between the functor sign and the argument sign. The rules of the grammar and the design structure of the sign allow to express: (a) the concatenation between French auxiliaries (*être* and *avoir*) and the participle verb form within a single pattern, (b) transitions between clitics in a systematic way. Two complex questions of French syntax are thus covered in a fairly simple way.

Mots clés: computational linguistics; categorial unification grammar

Domaines: Linguistique

Karine Kray-Baschung, Gabriel G. Bès, Annick Corluy, Thierry Guillotin. Auxiliaries and Clitics in French UCG Grammar. Third Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1987, Copenhague, Denmark. pp.173-178. ⟨halshs-00372903⟩