Towards Creating Precision Grammars from Interlinear Glossed Text: Inferring Large-Scale Typological Properties

We propose to bring together two kinds of linguistic resources—interlinear glossed text (IGT) and a language-independent precision grammar resource—to automatically create precision grammars in the context of language documentation. This paper takes the first steps in that direction by extracting major-constituent word order and case system properties from IGT for a diverse sample of languages.

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