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diff --git a/doc/resource.txt b/doc/resource.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c93e7f2d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/resource.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +The GF Resource Grammar Library + +The outermost linguistic structure is Text. Texts are composed +from Phrases followed by punctuation marks - either of ".", "?" or +"!! (with their proper variants in Spanish and Arabic). Here is an +example of a text. + + John walks. Why? He doesn't want to sleep! + +Phrases are mostly built from Utterances, which in turn are +declarative sentences, questions, or imperatives - but there +are also "one-word utterances" consisting of noun phrases +or other subsentential phrases. Some Phrases are more primitive, +for instance "yes" and "no". Here are some examples of Phrases. + + yes + come on, John + but John walks + give me the stick please + don't you know that he is sleeping + a glass of wine + a glass of wine please + +There is no connection between the punctuation marks and the +types of utterances. This reflects the fact that the punctuation +mark in a real text is selected as a function of the speech act +rather than the grammatical form of an utterance. The following +text is thus well-formed. + + John walks. John walks? John walks! + |