The Need for Grammatical Stocktaking
Geoffrey R Sampson · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1993
Natural language research needs something akin to a ‘Linnaean taxonomy’, identifying and rigorously specifying boundaries between the various structural categories of a language, to allow data to be collected and exchanged in unambiguous form. The author has made a first attempt to provide such a taxonomy for English grammar; the scheme is to appear in book form, and an electronic corpus annotated in conformity with it has been available since 1992.