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As we saw in the preceding chapter, it is easy to automate syntactic tree buildup. It is not as easy, but often more desirable, to automate the buildup of semantic structure. Both features were introduced in joint research with McCord (Dahl and McCord 1983), which was motivated by treating coordination (constructions with “and”, “or”, “but”, etc.) in a metagrammatical fashion.
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Abramson, H., Dahl, V. (1989). Modifier Structure Grammars. In: Logic Grammars. Symbolic Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3640-5_9
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