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diff --git a/doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html b/doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html index 2ca7949cc..80b19795a 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html +++ b/doc/tutorial/gf-tutorial2.html @@ -1239,11 +1239,45 @@ the adjectival paradigm in which the two singular forms are the same, can be def } </pre> + +<!-- NEW --> +<h4>Discontinuous constituents</h4> + +A linearization type may contain more strings than one. +An example of where this is useful are English particle +verbs, such as <i>switch off</i>. The linearization of +a sentence may place the object between the verb and the particle: +<i>he switched it off</i>. + +<p> + +The following grammar defines transitive verbs as a +<b>discontinuous constituents</b>, i.e. as having a linearization +type with two strings and not just one: +<pre> + +</pre> + + + +<!-- NEW --> +<h4></h4> + + +<!-- NEW --> +<h4></h4> + + + <!-- NEW --> <h2>Topics still to be written</h2> -Discontinuous constituents +Free variation + +<p> + +Record extension, tuples <p> |