LinGO Grammar Matrix
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The LinGO Grammar
Matrix is developed at the University of Washington in the context
of the DELPH-IN Consortium,
by Emily M. Bender
and colleagues. This material is based up work supported by
the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BCS-0644097.
Additional support for Grammar Matrix development came from a gift
to the Turing Center from the Utilika Foundation. Any opinions,
findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
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Filling out this form will produce a starter grammar for a natural
language, consisting of a language-independent core and customized
support for the phenomena you describe below. Be advised that this
system is highly experimental. We are interested in your feedback.
If you have questions or comments, please email Emily Bender at:
ebender at u dot washington dot edu.
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General Information
Language name = mini English
ISO code = eng
Comments = This is a sample choices file which exercises only a small range of the information provided by the customization system, in order to create a grammar for a very small fragment of English. It describes and SVO language with a small vocabulary drawn from English and subset of the (already simple) English verbal agreement paradigm. Where it was not possible to leave a section blank, we have said the language does not manifest the phenomenon, even when this is not actually correct for English.
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Word Order
Basic word order = Subject, Verb, Object
Has determiners = Yes
Order of determiners and nouns = Det-Noun
Has auxiliaries = No
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Number
number1_name = sg
number2_name = pl
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Person
Person = First, second, and third
First person = unspecified
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Case
Core case marking = unspecified
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Lexicon
noun1_name = common
noun1_feat1_name = Person
noun1_feat1_value = 3rd
noun1_det = Obligatorily
noun1_stem1_orth = Contrastive topic {i} marker cat
noun1_stem1_pred = _cat_n_rel
noun1_stem2_orth = dog
noun1_stem2_pred = _dog_n_rel
noun2_name = 1sg-pronoun
noun2_feat1_name = Person
noun2_feat1_value = 1st
noun2_feat2_name = Subtype {i} number
noun2_feat2_value = sg
noun2_det = Impossibly
noun2_stem1_orth = I
noun2_stem1_pred = _pronoun_n_rel
verb1_name = itr
verb1_valence = Intransitive
verb1_stem1_orth = sleep
verb1_stem1_pred = _sleep_v_rel
verb2_name = tr
verb2_valence = Transitive
verb2_stem1_orth = chase
verb2_stem1_pred = _chase_v_rel
adj1_name = regular
adj1_mod = both
adj1_modpos = After-modifying
adj1_predcop = Obligatorily
adj1_stem1_orth = big
adj1_stem1_pred = _big_a_rel
adj1_stem2_orth = small
adj1_stem2_pred = _small_a_rel
cop1_name = 3rd-sg
cop1_comptype = APs
cop1_feat1_name = Subtype {i} number
cop1_feat1_value = sg
cop1_feat1_head = The subject
cop1_feat2_name = Person
cop1_feat2_value = 3rd
cop1_feat2_head = The subject
cop1_stem1_orth = is
cop2_name = pl
cop2_comptype = APs
cop2_feat1_name = Subtype {i} number
cop2_feat1_value = pl
cop2_feat1_head = The subject
cop2_stem1_orth = are
det1_stem1_orth = the
det1_stem1_pred = _def_q_rel
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Morphology
noun-pc1_name = num
noun-pc1_obligatory = on
noun-pc1_order = Suffix
noun-pc1_inputs = noun1
noun-pc1_lrt1_name = singular
noun-pc1_lrt1_feat1_name = Subtype {i} number
noun-pc1_lrt1_feat1_value = sg
noun-pc1_lrt1_lri1_inflecting = No
noun-pc1_lrt2_name = plural
noun-pc1_lrt2_feat1_name = Subtype {i} number
noun-pc1_lrt2_feat1_value = pl
noun-pc1_lrt2_lri1_inflecting = Yes
noun-pc1_lrt2_lri1_orth = S
verb-pc1_name = pernum
verb-pc1_obligatory = on
verb-pc1_order = Suffix
verb-pc1_inputs = Any verb
verb-pc1_lrt1_name = 3sg
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat1_name = Person
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat1_value = 3rd
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat1_head = The subject
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat2_name = Subtype {i} number
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat2_value = sg
verb-pc1_lrt1_feat2_head = The subject
verb-pc1_lrt1_lri1_inflecting = Yes
verb-pc1_lrt1_lri1_orth = S
verb-pc1_lrt2_name = pl
verb-pc1_lrt2_feat1_name = Subtype {i} number
verb-pc1_lrt2_feat1_value = pl
verb-pc1_lrt2_feat1_head = The subject
verb-pc1_lrt2_lri1_inflecting = No
verb-pc1_lrt3_name = non-3rd
verb-pc1_lrt3_feat1_name = Person
verb-pc1_lrt3_feat1_value = 1st, 2nd
verb-pc1_lrt3_feat1_head = The subject
verb-pc1_lrt3_lri1_inflecting = No
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Test Sentences
sentence1_orth = the cat chases the dog
sentence2_orth = the dogs sleep
Sample Grammars:
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