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"abstract": "A graanmar tbrmalism, Field and Category Grammar ar (FCG), is described, which beside constituent structure and functional structure recognizes a level of field structure. It is argued that the formalism offers descriptive and computational advantages for the analysis of Scandinavian and other languages that distinguish clause types topologically. It is also argued that the clear distinction between fields and constituents makes FCGs theoretically sounder than other proposed field grammars. A comparison is made of the word order rules and assumptions of FCGs with the partial orderip, gs employed by G PSG and other models.",
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"text": "A graanmar tbrmalism, Field and Category Grammar ar (FCG), is described, which beside constituent structure and functional structure recognizes a level of field structure. It is argued that the formalism offers descriptive and computational advantages for the analysis of Scandinavian and other languages that distinguish clause types topologically. It is also argued that the clear distinction between fields and constituents makes FCGs theoretically sounder than other proposed field grammars. A comparison is made of the word order rules and assumptions of FCGs with the partial orderip, gs employed by G PSG and other models.",
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"text": "A major motivation for field structure in the Scandinavian languages is the correlation between the position era constituent and grammatical flmction. For instance, a NP occuring after the finite verb but before: the sentence adverbs, i.e. in the field that Diderichsen termed Ncksusfclt, is a subject, while NPs appearing after the sentence adverbs, in the Indholdsfelt (content field) are objects. As main clauses have no surface VP-node consisting solely of the verb and its complements, a configurational definition of subject,; and objects is less appealing.",
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"text": "There is a correlation also between positions and thematic functions, the classical example being Diderichsen's l'~undament (foundation), the po-sition before the finite verb which holds thematically prominent constituents of various kinds.",
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"text": "A second motivation is that the word order regu-larities of' clause types are better described if we haw: access to field structure. In a phrase st, ruct, m'e grammar we either have to write a separate rt~le, or rule schema, for each clause type, or else introduce pewerflfl rules such as transforn-mtions or recta-rules to, capture differences and similarities. Field st.rtact.ure can be used to express the common traits directly: the schema in figure 1 apply to virtually all Swedish clause types.* Moreover, variation can be accounted for in terms of constraints on what may occur i' ,~ the fields and such constraints may be expressed Ly regular expressions. 'Fhvs, the il~corporation of field structure to a formalism does not add to its co~Hputational complexity.",
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"text": "It is obvious that schemas such as that of figure 1 can be defined by context-free rewrite rules each of which specifies a number of subfield-relations and a sequ~ a~tial order for the subfields. ~l'he rules below togelher define the schema in figu,'e l, which we name \u00a3.",
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"text": "1) }2 -, F NexF ContF NexF --+ v nex ContF ~ v' ObjF adv ObjF --+ obj pobj comp",
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"text": "The simplest way of formalizing a field grammar is to define an appropriate set of' rules of this kind and, if we want to derive a functional structure, associate the rules and lexical er, tries with l'uncLio~.lal information. This is essentially the approach taken by [RueS7] and by [Togeby88] . As a resulL the field notion is merged with the notion of constituerlt. II. is indeed often said that an advantage of l)idcrichsen's analysis is that it offers a 10ett.er coJ~stituem. analysis of Danish than, say, traditio~ml TC,. Tlds is not so, however. On the contrary, it. is one of the weaknesses of Diderichsen's work that the notions of fiehls and constituents are regularly confused (cf.",
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"text": "1The schema in figure 1 is a revised version of l)klcrichsea's classical schema. For instance, the nexus field h~Lq been givel~ two positions instead of three for reasons expl~tined in sectioll 3.1.3.",
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"text": "Foundation (F) Nexus field (NexF) idag today [Telem72, Braunm86] ). Instead field structure is better conceived of as a level that accounts for the linearization of independently defined constituents.",
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"text": "While such a conception of field structure is more restricted, it is more motivated and equally amenable to formalization. The formalism must deal with two types of information for a constituent, however, its category and the field(s) it occurs in. Also, we need to distinguish carefully the dominance relations for fields (supe,field) and categories (dominates) as they differ in their logical properties, ttere only two important differences will be noted: [1] Fields transmit expressions, categories don't. Given an expression, e, that is situated in a field, f, it will also be situated in every field that is a super field of f. Conversely, fields generally allow multiple occurrences of constituents (incl. none; cf. figure 1), while categories categorize exactly one constituent at a time. [2] The supetfieldrelation is non-recursive, which means that schemas have a finite number of elements. The dominatesrel-:~tion, on the other hand, allows recursiou in the usual way.",
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"text": "Field-and-Category Grammars (henceforth FCG) may, with fimctional schemas included, be regarded as a generalization of Lexical-Functional Grammars [LFG82]. There is then the usual division between two structural levels, but as the surface level includes information about the position of a constituent in a relevant schema, and not just category, we refer to it as a topological structure, or t-structu,~. For tire purposes of this paper the f-structure may be taken as in LI?G.",
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"text": "A t-structure for a simple sentence is illustrated in figure 2 . The rules necessary for the generation of t-structures form a Basic FCG.",
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"text": "A schema is defined as a maximal field. A position is a terminal field. An identifier position is a position that admits an identifier of a phrase, such as a lexical head.",
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"text": "Categories are ordered by a subsumption relation. An actual category is a category that does not subsume any other category; an abstract category is one ",
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"text": "Field structure rules define the internal structure of fields in terms of subfields. In addition, they assign each position an occurrence index, stating the maximum number of fillers it takes. I will write p* to indicate a position with any number of fillers, pn for a position with a maximum of n fillers, (p) for a position with one optional filler, and ~imply p for a position with one obligatory filler. The rules in (1) may be expanded as below, where a simplified rule for the noun phrase schema is also stated. For instance, in (def4) a polar interrogative clauses (I'olS) is detined as a verb-first clause (V1S), which in (def3) is deiined as a main clause (MainS), which in turn is defined as a clause (S). Being a clause it. is linearized by E according to (csal) and its f-structure must have a subject, a sernantic form and a verbal property. Being a main clause it has a verb in position v (defl). Being a verb-first clause it has an empty foundation. In distinction to other verb-first. clauses it has a finite verb form, and an expressed subject in position nex. The arrows, I anil .L are used ms in I, FC;: 'l'lJ(: up-arrow identifies the f-structure of the donlinating node of the configuration, whereas the down-arrow identifies the f-structure of the dominated aode.",
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"text": "The first two rules state the possible sub.]ect configurations of Swedish.",
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"text": "They apply t.o aI! su]~ categories S and NP, unless this is contradicting ~h,' definitions of these categories. For instance, (conf!) does not apply to a V1S as defined in (de[\"/).",
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"text": "The last two rules both define fillers of position 'nex' without ordering them. The third rule detilJes an iterative configuration, as indicated by its occurrence index. Thus, the subject is allowed to take., diL ferent relative positions w r t the sentence adw~'rbs in agreement with the facts illustrated in (,,I)-((3). ll! this way fields serve to define bol'ders %r l<)ca] word or(le,' variation.",
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"text": "(4) I natt var katten hog inte ute.",
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"text": "lasl-nighl was lhe-cal hog nol o~tl \"Probably, the cat wasn't outdoors last night\" ",
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"text": "A lexicM rule may be written on the form (w, C, T, F) where the lexical item w is assigned a category, a (usually null) topological constraint and some timetional information. Three illustrations are given in (7)-(9). In order to be well-formed an expression of a FCG must have both a well-formed t-structure and a wellformed Lstructure. We omit the requirements of well-formed Lstructures as they can be taken to coincide with those of a LFG. A topological structure, T, is welt-formed according to a FCG, G, ifr the following condition holds: (i) Each node of T is assigned an actual category and every node apart, from the top-node is assigned a position; (ii) Any local tree, L, of T, with topnode category, C, satisfies the following conditions: (a) for each branch of L there is a configuration rule, or a lexical rule, in G that licenses it; (b) if C is non-terminal, there is a schema, ~r, associated with C, such that the sequential order of the branches is in agreement with the sequential order of their positions in c~; (c) all restrictions on o-imposed by C in its definition are satisfied by L.",
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"text": "By removing all functional information from a FCG we obtain a Basic FCG. It is the Basic FCG that is responsible for the expression of dominance and precedence relations in the grammar, i.e. it has the same role as the phrase-structure rules of a LFG. This section is concerned with some interesting properties of Basic FCGs. First I show that a Basic FCG is weakly equivalent to a context-fi'ee grammar.",
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"text": "Let G be a Basic FCG. Let A he the set of actual categories, Z the set of schemas, and P the set of positions, all finite sets. For any CEA let L(C) denote the set of strings dominated by C. The language of G, L(G) is defined as a union of such sets for some suitable subset A' C A, e.g. by the set of subcategories of S.",
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"text": "Let W be the set of words that occur in configuration rules and category definitions. Let K be the set AUW.",
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"text": "For any a ES we may, by expansion of the relevant field structure rules, derive a positional structure for c,. Call this structure %. For instance, from (2) we may derive a positional structure e>2:",
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"text": "(F) (v) nex* (v') obj 2 pobj* (comp) adv*",
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"text": "A positional structure can be given the form of a regular expression over P. This is guaranteed, since fields are non-recursive objects.",
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"text": "Let D he any actual category that is linearized by ~, and let p be a position that occurs in co. The category definitions associate with D and p a conjunction of topological conditions, Dp,r, where each conjunct has one of the forms in table 1.",
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"text": "For given D and p the configuration rules allow us to derive the constituent strings that may occur in p under D. There is only a finite number of applicable configuration rules. Each rule gives a disjunction of actual categories and an occurrence index for that disjunction. If all occurrence indices are finite, or if the occurrence index of p is finite, the constituent strings may be represented by a finite language over K. If some occurrence indices are '*', and p itself he, s occurrence index '*', we may first form a finite sublanguage over K that represents all strings ofnol> iterative constituent categories, and then extend it by introducing the iterative constituents. In either case, the result is a regular language over K. We call this language Lu,p. It is interesting to note that many simple contextfree languages cannot be given a simple Basic FCG. l\"or example, if a certain ca.tegory, C, takes one obligatory daughter, II, and two optional daughters A, B, according to the the Cl\"-grantmar G1, there is no Basic FOG for L(G1) that has C as an actual category. 1t\" there is such a I'~CC,, it. must employ at least /hree positions, since otherwise alternative orders must be allowed. Ttms it takes three conliguratiol~ rules pertaining to three diffc.rent positions to account for lhe string [A 1I B]. But as these are independent the strings [A tl] and [11 B] ca,, also be generated, contradicting the assun~ption.",
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"text": "In a Basic I\"CG a category I)ehaving as (2: in C,I must be abstract and its diff(.'rei~t realizations must be divided among a i~tlHlt)er of actual sul~cv.teg(;ries. What languages can FCGs describe well', e Intuitively it. seems that complex coJlstituents that share a set of potential (lat~ghters should obey the same constraints as regards their relative order and occurrence. In particular, the occurrence of one daughter should be independent of the occurrence of other daughters. Where there isa difference in these prol)ertie.s, there must be a categorial distinction in the grammar, as the example abow? illustrales. We may call this property catcgo'ry-dcpendeT~l fi:ccd emoting.",
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"text": "it, see.ms, however, that thi'~ property is significant for natural languages, al leasl [or those, like the Germanic languages, t.hat distinguish clause t.ypes on topological grounds. It is obvious that this assumption is more nat urally made in a framework that works with local trees Ihat have only two or three branches than in a framework which employs fiat structures, t:'or instance, the existence of unmarked and inverted clauses is not contradicting the FCPO-hypothesis, if the subject is regarded ~Ls a sister of the finite verb ouly in the inverted case. llowever, there are constructions that speak against it. as a universal, such as t.he order of object and verb in German main and subof dirlateclauses: Ich kauflc ein Auto (I bm,ght a cat') vs. lc]~ babe ei~..4,~to flckaufl (i have a car bough1 :--1 have I)ought a cat'), and the order of verb partici-. pies and their complements in Swedish predicative and attributive constructions: Rapporlen dr\" bcatdlhl av Bor.q ('Fhe report is ordered by Borg) vs. De~ av Borg beslMlda rapporten (The by Borg ordered report = The report that Borg ordered). These constructions are not problematic for FCGs, however, although they necessitate a categorial split.",
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"text": "LP-rules are used also in franteworks which do not subscribe to the ECPO-property, such as IIPSG [PolSag87] . llowever, they need to be colnplemented by something, as they miss an important aspect of word order. As they apply to sister constituents, they fail to give any information on the position of a daughter relative to the phonological span of the mother. For instance, as a speaker of English I kt,ow that the definile article appears at the very beginning of an N1 ) and that relative clauses appear at the end. Given a set of IA~-rules ordering detcrmilLers, relative clauses and other NP-constituents we may possibly infer this information, but this is a roundabout way of doing it.. To express such facts dire.ctly we need a device that will impose a sequential strut-ture on phonological spans, and it is tbr this purpose that the topological schema is useful.",
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"text": "On the other hand partial orderings seem better suited to describe category-independent word order regularities. Consider the case of complements to a head. In the Germanic languages the norreal order would be the one expressed in (10): NPcomplements precede PP-complements which precede verbal complements whatever the category of the head [GPSG85, p. 110].",
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"text": "The rule in (2) defining the complement field (ObjF), repeated here for convenience, specifies three positions, one for bare objects, one for prepositional objects and one for verbal and adjectival complements.",
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