Optional and Iterated Types for Pregroup Grammars

@inproceedings{Bchet2008OptionalAI,
  title={Optional and Iterated Types for Pregroup Grammars},
  author={Denis B{\'e}chet and Alexandre Ja. Dikovsky and Annie Foret and Emmanuelle Garel},
  booktitle={LATA},
  year={2008}
}
Pregroup grammars are a context-free grammar formalism which may be used to describe the syntax of natural languages. However, this formalism is not able to naturally define types corresponding to optional and iterated arguments such as optional complements of verbs or verbs' adverbial modifiers. This paper introduces two constructions that make up for this deficiency. 
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