Participants' native languages: Chinese (2), Dutch, English, Finnish, French (2), Greek, Hebrew, Italian (3), Korean, Persian (2), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian (3), Russian, Spanish, Swedish (2), Swiss German, West-Assyrian - 24 students, 17 languages + 2 teachers, 1 more language

Formal grammar is no more expected to match natural language exactly

analysis: should be wider than the language (we will use UD)
generation: should be contained in the language (we will use GF)
in both formats, we aim to use universal concepts for many languages

Phrase structure grammars, context-free = BNF, grammar rules, trees

example: english.cf
testing grammars in GF: import, generate_random, parse, linearize, visualize_parse, help

GF grammars: dividing .cf into abstract and concrete .gf

example: Intro*.gf
forms of rules: cat, fun, lincat, lin
word order switch English-Italian
to solve next time:

Experiments in GF:

https://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/minibar/minibar.html
Grammar: ResourceDemo, Startcat: S

Lecture 2

Agreement, parameter definitions, variable and inherent features, linearization types

IntroEng.gf

For you to do:

write a concrete syntax for some other language, carefully thinking about

GF for ARM Mac (M1, M2, M3): https://www.grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/gf-mac.gz

After download, open a terminal and do:

 mkdir tmp  # in your home directory
 cd tmp
 mv ~/Downloads/gf-mac.gz .
 gunzip gf-mac.gz
 mv gf-mac gf
 chmod a+x gf
 ./gf

You should now see the GF promt. Type 'help' to see if it works!