Abstract
We show how linguistic grammars of two different yet related languages
can be developed and implemented in parallel, with language-independent
fragments serving as shared resources, and language-specific ones defined
separately for each language. The two grammars in the focus of this paper
are of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, and the basic infras-
tructure, or core, of the grammars is based on “standard” HPSG. We identify
four types of relations that exist between the grammars of two languages and
demonstrate how the different types of relations can be implemented in par-
allel grammars with maximally shared resources. The examples pertain to
the grammars of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, yet similar
issues and considerations are applicable to other pairs of languages that have
some degree of similarity.
can be developed and implemented in parallel, with language-independent
fragments serving as shared resources, and language-specific ones defined
separately for each language. The two grammars in the focus of this paper
are of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, and the basic infras-
tructure, or core, of the grammars is based on “standard” HPSG. We identify
four types of relations that exist between the grammars of two languages and
demonstrate how the different types of relations can be implemented in par-
allel grammars with maximally shared resources. The examples pertain to
the grammars of Modern Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, yet similar
issues and considerations are applicable to other pairs of languages that have
some degree of similarity.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore |
| Editors | Stefan Müller |
| Place of Publication | Stanford, CA |
| Publisher | CSLI Publications |
| Pages | 27-40 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| State | Published - 2015 |