Model-Theoretic Syntax

Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
27 October 2003

(Last Modified: Wednesday, 12 November 2003)

The Model-Theoretic Syntax (MTS) paradigm, introduced by Geoffrey Pullum and James Rogers, is a theoretical framework for theorizing about the syntactic structure of expression in Natural Languages, which contrasts with another kind of paradigm called Generative-Enumerative Syntax (GES). As Pullum says, the contrast between these two types of framework is not necessarily adversarial.

I will present the MTS paradigm and then discuss how, and to what extent, a non-generative approach like the Property Grammars could be related to MTS.