Abstract
Pregroup calculus has been used for the representation of free word order languages (Sanskrit and Hungarian), using a construction called precyclicity. However, restricted word order alternation has not been handled before. This paper aims at introducing and formally expressing three methods of representing word order alternation in the pregroup representation of any language. This paper describes the word order alternation patterns of Hindi, and creates a basic pregroup representation for the language. In doing so, the shortcoming of correct reductions for ungrammatical sentences due to the current apparatus is highlighted, and the aforementioned methods are invoked for a grammatically accurate representation of restricted word order alternation. The replicability of these methods is explained in the representation of adverbs and prepositional phrases in English.- Anthology ID:
- N19-3017
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Sudipta Kar, Farah Nadeem, Laura Burdick, Greg Durrett, Na-Rae Han
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 125–135
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N19-3017
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N19-3017
- Cite (ACL):
- Alok Debnath and Manish Shrivastava. 2019. A Pregroup Representation of Word Order Alternation Using Hindi Syntax. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, pages 125–135, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Pregroup Representation of Word Order Alternation Using Hindi Syntax (Debnath & Shrivastava, NAACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/N19-3017.pdf