Flexible Composition and Delayed Tree-Locality
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چکیده
Flexible composition is an extension of TAG that has been used in a variety of TAG-analyses. In this paper, we present a dedicated study of the formal and linguistic properties of TAGs with flexible composition (TAG-FC). We start by presenting a survey of existing applications of flexible composition. In the main part of the paper, we discuss a formal definition of TAGFCs and give a proof of equivalence of TAG-FC to tree-local MCTAG, via a formalism called delayed tree-local MCTAG. We then proceed to argue that delayed treelocality is more intuitive for the analysis of many cases where flexible composition has been employed.
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