Inheritance in word grammar
Norman Fraser, Richard A Hudson · 1992
This paper describes the central role played by default inheritance in Word Grammar, a theory of language knowledge and processing. A single formalism is used to represent knowledge at the levels of morphology, syntax, and semantics. A single rule of inference is used to inherit knowledge at all of these levels. This rule is distinctive in that it requires defaults to be explicitly overridden in the case of exceptions. The explicit overriding rule is used in syntax to achieve what other theories achieve by means of transformations, metarules, or lexical rules