PELICAN - Parser for English Linguistics using Immediate Constituent Analysis

Grammar

At present the grammar describes the following types of constructions and phenomena:

• declarative, interrogative (yes-no interrogatives, but also wh-interrogatives and tag-questions), and imperative sentences. Exclamatory sentences are yet to be included)

• active and passive constructions

• clauses with unmarked and marked word order, incl. subject-verb inversion, clefting, existential there, extraposition of the subject or the direct object, preposing (fronting) of the direct object and subject complement

• apposition, juxtaposition, coordination, and subordination

As yet the grammar does not describe raising constructions nor correlative coordination. The description of extraposition needs further attention.

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