Review article

Sentende Representation in Context-Sensitive Grammars

Sanja Seljan
Kristina Vučković
Zdravko Dovedan

Abstract

Every language, whether it is natural or artificial, has its recognizable grammar that consists
of allowed elements and rules for putting those elements together. The main aim of
the formal grammar is to represent rules for generation of the artificial or natural languages.
While artificial languages (such as note system, logic, mathematics, programming languages)
are described by context-free formal grammar aiming to describe syntax, natural
languages tend to be described by context-sensitive rules aiming to include, as much as
possible, syntactic and semantic component. Among many formal grammars that tend to
describe as much as possible the natural language sentences, in this paper two context-sensitive
grammars will be presented: Lexical-Functional Grammar and Case Grammar that
aim to include semantic roles (such as agent, theme, beneficiary, goal, location, etc.) in order
to represent the natural language sentences.

Keywords

formal grammar; natural language; context-sensitive grammar; lexical-functional grammar; case grammar

Hrčak ID:

16346

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/16346

Publication date:

20.9.2002.

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