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  <Title>FRENCH ORDER WITHOUT ORDER*</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the version of categorial grammar (henceforth, CG) developed by Bar-Hillel (Bar-Hillel 1953), categories encode both constituency and linear precedence. Linear precedence is encoded by (a) ordering valencies in a list and (b) using directional slashes indicating whether the argument is to be found to the left or to the right of the functor.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> A similar approach is adopted in Unification Categorial Grammar (UCG) (Zeevat, Klein and Calder 1987) as regards word order whereby the directional slash is replaced by a binary Order feature with value pre orpost. Thus, S/NPLNP in normal CG lranslates as S/NP:predNP:post in UCG, wherepre indicates that the functor must precede the argument and post that it should follow it.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Our work on French syntax supports the claim that the complicated pattern of French linearity phenomena can be treated in a framework closely related to UCG but which departs from it in two ways. First, there is no rigid assignment of an order value (pre orpost) to verb valencies. Second, following (Gunji 1986) verbal valencies are viewed as forming a set rather than a list. As * The word reported here was tan'led out as part of ESPRIT Project 393 ACORD,'q'he Construction and Interrogation of Knowledge Bases using Natural Language Text and Grapities&amp;quot;. null a result, the syntactic behaviour of constituents is dissociated from surface ordering. Constraints on word order are described by a system of features as advocated in COszkoreit 1987) and (Karttunen 1986).</Paragraph>
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