THE LEXICON GRAMMAR OF A LANGUAGE

Maurice Gross (1)

1 LADL - Laboratoire d'automatique documentaire et linguistique

Lexicon-grammar is a model of syntax limited to the elementary sentences of a natural language. We present its main theoretical features, mostly inferred from large-scale empirical studies aimed at obtaining a large coverage of French. French is the earliest application, but other studies, in varied languages, have also been performed.

The major principle is that the unit of meaning is not located at the level of the word, but at the level of elementary sentences; we will see how coherent descriptions of natural languages have been built on this basis.

Mots clés: syntax; lexicon; lexicon-grammar; syntaxe; lexique; lexique-grammaire

Domaines: Linguistique; Traitement du texte et du document

Maurice Gross. THE LEXICON GRAMMAR OF A LANGUAGE: APPLICATION TO FRENCH. R.E.Asher. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon, pp.2195-2205, 1994. ⟨halshs-00278309⟩