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  2. Immediate constituent analysis - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) is a syntactic theory which focuses on the hierarchical structure of sentences by isolating and identifying the constituents. While the idea of breaking down sentences into smaller components can be traced back to early psychological and linguistic theories, ICA as a formal method was ...

  3. Theory of descriptions - Wikipedia

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    In this case, we should not accept Russell's analysis as correctly representing the reporter's assertion. On Russell's analysis, the sentence is to be understood as an existential quantification of the conjunction of three components: There is an x such that: x murdered Smith; there is no y, y not equal x, such that y murdered Smith; and; x is ...

  4. Truth-conditional semantics - Wikipedia

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    Dummett believes a speaker must know three components of a sentence to understand its meaning: a theory of sense, indicating the part of the meaning that the speaker grasps; a theory of reference, which indicates what claims about the world are made by the sentence, and a theory of force, which indicates what kind of speech act the expression ...

  5. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In syntactic analysis, a constituent is a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure. The constituent structure of sentences is identified using tests for constituents. [1] These tests apply to a portion of a sentence, and the results provide evidence about the constituent structure of the sentence.

  6. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written language, where sentences are diagrammed. The model shows the relations between words and the nature of sentence structure and can be used as a tool to help recognize which potential ...

  7. Functional sentence perspective - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, functional sentence perspective (FSP) is a theory describing the information structure of the sentence and language communication in general.It has been developed in the tradition of the Prague School of Functional and Structural Linguistics together with its sister theory, Topic-Focus Articulation.

  8. Projection principle - Wikipedia

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    The Projection Principle simply states that when notating the syntactic structure of a sentence such as “John runs fast.”, we must specify at every level what lexical category each piece of the sentence belongs to [2] Two common ways of notating the syntactic structure of a sentence under X-Bar Theory include bracketing and tree drawing.

  9. Syntactic parsing (computational linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In this approach, constituent parsing is modelled like machine translation: the task is sequence-to-sequence conversion from the sentence to a constituency parse, in the original paper using a deep LSTM with an attention mechanism. The gold training trees have to be linearised for this kind of model, but the conversion does not lose any ...