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By Hans C. Boas,Ivan A. Sag

This booklet bargains a long-awaited unified and specific treatise on construction-based grammar. The method of grammar provided this is the union of Berkeley building Grammar, as represented via the early paintings of Charles J. Fillmore and Paul Kay, with building HPSG as pioneered via Ivan Sag, Carl Pollard, and others. The presentation of this idea in a close bankruptcy by way of Sag offers the entire outlines of a brand new method of grammar. It displays the confluence of 2 separate, even though converging, traditions, and constitutes a unique synthesis.

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