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| author | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-09-22 11:49:15 +0000 |
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| committer | aarne <aarne@cs.chalmers.se> | 2008-09-22 11:49:15 +0000 |
| commit | 98665df78b8018af30051cb4a9a31f845e0ba19d (patch) | |
| tree | 67ba30b09e2b9590a00a4b193bf7611caa935af8 /next-lib/src/abstract/Common.gf | |
| parent | 4862018f140a1bdcc7961d445ed9aa92facd742f (diff) | |
moved lib/next-resource to next-lib/src, to enable linking with next-lib as value of GF_LIB_PATH
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diff --git a/next-lib/src/abstract/Common.gf b/next-lib/src/abstract/Common.gf new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2aa8f0d59 --- /dev/null +++ b/next-lib/src/abstract/Common.gf @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +--1 Common: Structures with Common Implementations. + +-- This module defines the categories that uniformly have the linearization +-- ${s : Str}$ in all languages. + +-- Moreover, this module defines the abstract parameters of tense, polarity, and +-- anteriority, which are used in [``Phrase`` Phrase.html] to generate different +-- forms of sentences. Together they give 4 x 2 x 2 = 16 sentence forms. + +-- These tenses are defined for all languages in the library. More tenses +-- can be defined in the language extensions, e.g. the "passé simple" of +-- Romance languages in [``ExtraRomance`` ../romance/ExtraRomance.gf]. + +abstract Common = { + + cat + +--2 Top-level units + +-- Constructed in [``Text`` Text.html]: $Text$. + + Text ; -- text consisting of several phrases e.g. "He is here. Why?" + +-- Constructed in [``Phrase`` Phrase.html]: + + Phr ; -- phrase in a text e.g. "but be quiet please" + Utt ; -- sentence, question, word... e.g. "be quiet" + Voc ; -- vocative or "please" e.g. "my darling" + PConj ; -- phrase-beginning conjunction e.g. "therefore" + +-- Constructed in [``Sentence`` Sentence.html]: + + SC ; -- embedded sentence or question e.g. "that it rains" + +--2 Adverbs + +-- Constructed in [``Adverb`` Adverb.html]. +-- Many adverbs are constructed in [``Structural`` Structural.html]. + + Adv ; -- verb-phrase-modifying adverb e.g. "in the house" + AdV ; -- adverb directly attached to verb e.g. "always" + AdA ; -- adjective-modifying adverb e.g. "very" + AdN ; -- numeral-modifying adverb e.g. "more than" + IAdv ; -- interrogative adverb e.g. "why" + CAdv ; -- comparative adverb e.g. "more" + +--2 Tense, polarity, and anteriority + + Temp ; -- temporal and aspectual features e.g. past anterior + Tense ; -- tense e.g. present, past, future + Pol ; -- polarity e.g. positive, negative + Ant ; -- anteriority e.g. simultaneous, anterior + + fun + TTAnt : Tense -> Ant -> Temp ; + + PPos, PNeg : Pol ; -- I sleep/don't sleep + + TPres : Tense ; + ASimul : Ant ; + TPast, TFut, TCond : Tense ; -- I slept/will sleep/would sleep --# notpresent + AAnter : Ant ; -- I have slept --# notpresent + +} |
