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<LI><A HREF="#toc1">Infrastructure with common implementations.</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#toc2">Top-level units</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc3">Adverbs</A>
<LI><A HREF="#toc4">Tense, polarity, and anteriority</A>
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<H1>Infrastructure with common implementations.</H1>
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This module defines the abstract parameters of tense, polarity, and
This module defines the categories that uniformly have the linearization
<CODE>{s : Str}</CODE> in all languages. They are given lock fields that guarantee
grammatical correctness via type checking.
Moreover, this module defines the abstract parameters of tense, polarity, and
anteriority, which are used in <A HREF="Phrase.html">Phrase</A> to generate different
forms of sentences. Together they give 2 x 4 x 4 = 16 sentence forms.
These tenses are defined for all languages in the library. More tenses
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abstract Common = {
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Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases
Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "But come here my darling."
Pol ;
Tense ;
Ant ;
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<H2>Top-level units</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Text.html">Text</A>: <CODE>Text</CODE>.
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Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases e.g. "He is here. Why?"
Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "But get out please."
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Constructed in <A HREF="Phrase.html">Phrase</A>: <CODE>Phr</CODE> and
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Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet"
Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling"
PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conj. e.g. "therefore"
SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains"
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<H2>Adverbs</H2>
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Constructed in <A HREF="Adverb.html">Adverb</A>.
Many adverbs are constructed in <A HREF="Structural.html">Structural</A>.
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Adv ; -- verb-phrase-modifying adverb, e.g. "in the house"
AdV ; -- adverb directly attached to verb e.g. "always"
AdA ; -- adjective-modifying adverb, e.g. "very"
AdN ; -- numeral-modifying adverb, e.g. "more than"
IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb e.g. "why"
CAdv ; -- comparative adverb e.g. "more"
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<H2>Tense, polarity, and anteriority</H2>
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Tense ; -- tense: present, past, future, conditional
Pol ; -- polarity: positive, negative
Ant ; -- anteriority: simultaneous, anterior
fun
PPos, PNeg : Pol ; -- I sleep/don't sleep