An acceptive grammar for the natural language English

  • Authors:
  • Harry Feldmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Rechenzentrum der Universität Hamburg

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN Notices
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

This paper presents an 'Acceptive Grammar' (Feldmann 83a) for a reasonable large subset of the natural language English. The grammar describes all decidable language properties, even context dependences and multiple accepting sequences, and needs no informal augments ! The rules of the Acceptive Grammar are given in form of SIMULA procedures and their graphical representations in form of easy readable SIMULA comments. The complete graphical representations of 'Basics of English' and 'Essentials of English' are listed in sections 3 and 4. The 'actual lexicon' of all entries which occur in the examples of this paper is listed in section 6. The examples are unabridged and show the input, which should be a CLAUSE (section 4) of natural English, and the output, which is a (possibly multiple) parse tree of the CLAUSE or an errordump.