20 years of the Grammar Matrix: cross-linguistic hypothesis testing of increasingly complex interactions

Abstract

The Grammar Matrix project is a meta-grammar engineering framework expressed in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). It automates grammar implementation and is thus a tool and a resource for linguistic hypothesis testing at scale. In this paper, we summarize how the Grammar Matrix grew in the last decade and describe how new additions to the system have made it possible to study interactions between analyses, both monolingually and cross-linguistically, at new levels of complexity.

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“…Computationally implemented grammars allow linguists to test analyses and keep track of the interaction between different parts of the grammar, besides any other technological applications for which they can be used. See, e.g., Forst and King 2023, Zamaraeva et al 2022, Bernard and Winterstein 2022, Duchier and Parmentier 2015, Müller 2015, and Bender 2008.…”