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.
Cite as: Grice, M. (1989) Syntactic structures and lexicon requirements for semantically unpredictable sentences in a number of languages. Proc. Speech Input/Output Assessment and Speech Databases, Vol.2, 19-22
@inproceedings{grice89_sioa,
author={Martine Grice},
title={{Syntactic structures and lexicon requirements for semantically unpredictable sentences in a number of languages}},
year=1989,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Input/Output Assessment and Speech Databases},
pages={Vol.2, 19-22}
}