Predictions and procedures in semantically-based grammar
Graéme Ritchie · 1978
It has been suggested that grammars for analysing English sentences should be based on semantic constructs. We examine what this might mean, focussing on the questions of semantic predictions and of processing procedures. There seems to be no general way of organising processing units around semantic categories, or of relating semantic predictions to specific processing units. We conclude that processing rules cannot be expressed in terms of referential semantics, and that top-down predictions can do little to drive the actual processing of words.