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linguistics

Contents

• Chapter 1: Setting Up
  • Linguistics Module - Setting up the use of this module.
  • Diagrams - To specify standard verb-phrase nodes in the parse tree.
  • Stock Control - To manage the stock of possible linguistic items.
  • Cardinals and Ordinals - To parse integers seen from a grammatical point of view.
• Chapter 2: NP Categories
  • Adjectives (linguistics) - To create adjective objects, each of which represents a single adjective which may have multiple inflected forms and meanings.
  • Articles - Preform grammar for the articles.
  • Determiners and Quantifiers - To create the determiners found in standard English which refer to collections of things, and to create their meanings as logical quantifiers.
  • Nouns - To create noun objects, each of which represents a single common or proper noun which may have multiple inflected forms.
  • Pronouns - Preform grammar for the pronouns.
• Chapter 3: VP Categories
  • Verbs - To record the identity and different structural forms of verbs.
  • Verb Meanings - To abstract the meaning of a verb.
  • Special Meanings - To abstract non-standard, perhaps non-SVO, meanings of a verb.
  • Verb Usages - To parse the many forms a verb can take.
  • Prepositions - To define prepositional forms.
  • Adverbs of Certainty - Adverbs such as "usually" or "initially".
  • Adverb Phrases of Occurrence - To parse representations of periods of time or of historical repetition.
• Chapter 4: Diagramming Sentences
  • Noun Phrases - To construct noun-phrase subtrees for assertion sentences.
  • Verb Phrases - To construct verb-phrase subtrees for assertion sentences.