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Everything about Syntactic predicate
A syntactic predicate specifies the syntactic validity of applying a production in a formal grammar and is analogous to a semantic predicate that specifies the semantic validity of applying a production. It is a simple and effective means of dramatically improving the recognition strength of an LL parser by providing arbitrary lookahead. In their original implementation, syntactic predicates had the form “( α )?” and could only appear on the left edge of a production. The required syntactic condition α could be any valid context-free grammar fragment. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Syntactic predicateA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Revisiting the predictive power of traditional vs. fine-grained syntactic complexity indices for L2 writing quality: The case of two genresInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Natural Language Processing and Information SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Alignment as a consequence of expectation adaptation: Syntactic priming is affected by the prime’s prediction error given both prior and recent experienceCited 336 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Alignment as a consequence of expectation adaptation: Syntactic priming is affected by the prime’s prediction error given both prior and recent experience
Cognitive and pragmatic messages of a syntactic choice: The case of the Japanese commentary predicate n(o) da
Predicate doubling in Spanish: On how discourse may mimic syntactic movement
Syntactic Preservation Theorems for Intuitionistic Predicate Logic
A Syntactic Embedding of Predicate Logic into Second-Order Propositional Logic
A Comprehensive Syntactic Analysis of Korean [... V ... V] Expressions I: Auxiliary Predicate Constructions and Case Alternation
Syntactic reflexes of information structure in heritage Spanish: Evidence from psych-predicate constructions
Unification of the predicate line in the logic-syntactic recognition of raster images
🆕 Influential since 2022
Revisiting the predictive power of traditional vs. fine-grained syntactic complexity indices for L2 writing quality: The case of two genres
The repercussions of OV > VO shift in Hungarian: Variation and change in syntactic complex predicate formation
STATE PREDICATE WORDS IN BULGARIAN – A SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION
A syntactic analysis of Predicate Doubling Clefts in Korean
THE SYNTACTIC STATUS OF THE ZERO PREDICATE (ON THE ISSUE OF QUALIFYING THE SYNTACTIC ZERO)
đź“š Books worth reading
Natural Language Processing and Information SystemsElisabeth Métais · 2005
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman · 1985
The Logic BookMerrie Bergmann · 1980
Complex predicatesMengistu Amberber, Brett Baker · 2006
Linguistics and Exegesis in the Gospel of MarkPaul L. Danove · 2001
Africanisms in the Gullah dialectLorenzo Dow Turner · 1949- 📕Routes to LanguageVirginia C. Mueller-Gathercole · 2008
Complex predicates in JapaneseYo Matsumoto · 1996
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