Little Tagalog
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Bare Grammars are a simple and straight-forward model for syntax. Normally, the lexicon in such a grammar is kept very minimal: each lexical item is an ordered pair consisting of the string and its category. However, the simplicity of such a lexicon can make formulating rules that are succinct and that capture grammatical regularities impossible. In this paper I propose that adding more information to the lexicon can make it possible to write rules that are succinct and capture more generalisations. The second part of this paper makes use of this additional information in the lexicon to formulate a grammar for free word order. I propose that it can be accounted for in bare grammars if we allow rules to form not only concatenated strings (which by definition have order) but also sets (which by definition do not).
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