Grammar Writing: Term Project

Exercise (due March, 11th)

Develop a grammar that consists of

• a type hierarchy
• a lexicon
• a set of rules

It's up to you what to write into the lexicon. Its contents should be representative of a particular topic, e.g., sports, business, politics, traveling, TV and entertainment, etc. Be a bit creative. The student goes to university and something of that sort has been covered already in class and will not be accepted.

The type hierarchy of your grammar should be based on the latest version from week 10. [1]

You need to make some minor modifications to handle functionality regarding agreement.

Your grammar should cover (correctly recognize and reject) the following patterns: (again, note that these are only patterns, i.e. the actual words are specific to your own custom lexical entries).

• Merkel travels
• Merkel meets Bush
• the President
• Merkel gave Bush a present
• The President gave the minister an order
• Merkel studied physics
• KimJongUn studied in Switzerland
• Putin likes Jinping
• (*) Putin like Donald