ISCA Archive SIOA 1989
ISCA Archive SIOA 1989

Syntactic structures and lexicon requirements for semantically unpredictable sentences in a number of languages

Martine Grice

Five loosely defined syntactic structures have been proposed as the basis for the generation of semantically unpredictable sentences in a number of European languages. Semantically unpredictable examples of sentences using these structures are provided along with a number of constraints on the lexicon for each syntactic category.