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SUO: RE: RE: Link Grammar and Parser - RRGs




> > John Velman wrote
> > Arguments against (or for) grammatical relations aren't 
> > necessarily the
> > same as arguments against (or for) universal grammar.  From 
> what I can
> > tell, it is certainly the case that many linguists don't believe in
> > universal grammar.  Van Valin apparently does, and the RRG 
> > book (Van Valin
> > and LaPolla, Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function) 
> > devotes a chapter to
> > Grammatical Relations GR.  This includes a section on a theory of
> > grammatical relations.   I gather that some folks think that 
> > grammatical
> > relations such as subject, object, indirect object are 
> > somehow 'primitives'
> > of grammar, while others think that they are somehow derived.  
> > 
> > An overview of GR can be found at
> > 
> > http://ai.ato.ms/MITECS/Entry/woolford.html
> > 
> > Haven't finished reading it yet, but it seems to cover the subject
> > reasonably well.
> 

I can't seem to get this reference to work.  Is there a mistyping
here?  When I try http://ai.ato.ms/ I get "This page intentionally
left blank."  At http://ai.ato.ms/MITEC/ and also at http://ai.ato.ms/MITEC/Entry/
I get a page not found error.  

Thanks,
Rich