Grammatical Framework Tutorial, with a Focus on Fenno-Ugric Languages
Aarne Ranta, Inari Listenmaa · Septentrio Conference Series · 2015
GF in a nutshellGrammatical Framework, GF, is a grammar formalism designed to support multilingual grammars.A multilingual grammar has an abstract syntax, which is shared by a set of languages.Each of these languages has a concrete syntax, which defines a relation between trees in the abstract syntax and strings in the language.For example, here is an abstract syntax tree representing predication with the verb love, subject I, and object you:With appropriate concrete syntaxes for Chinese, English, Finnish, and French, we obtain the following strings, together with word alignments determined by the tree structure:1