What is it about?

This article offers a way of unifying three divergent representations of language structure, namely those of Dependency Grammar (DG), Phrase Structure Grammar (PSG) and Categorial Grammar (CG), to press it in the service of explaining how discontinuous language structure can be represented in syntax.

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Why is it important?

Dependency Grammar (DG), Phrase Structure Grammar (PSG) and Categorial Grammar (CG) are usually understood to have divergent representations of linguistic structure and this article shows how to integrate and unify their representations.

Perspectives

This article shows the potency of a unified representation of discontinuous structure in human language through its neurocognitive basis.

Dr Prakash Mondal
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

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This page is a summary of: On the unified representation of continuity and discontinuity and its neurocognitive grounding, Folia Linguistica, March 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2017.
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