Talk:Model-theoretic grammar

Contradiction

This article lists Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar as an example of a constraint based grammar, but the article on generative grammar, which this article lists as a counterexample to Constraint-based Grammar, also lists GPSG as one of its examples. Could someone help to resolve this issue? Gottoben (talk) 03:47, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

@Gottoben and Brett: The article was recently revised, so it now describes it as a "model-theoretic grammar" instead of a "constraint-based grammar." I'm not sure if this is accurate: I've found many articles that describe "constraint-based grammars," but they rarely mention "model-theoretic grammars." Jarble (talk) 22:40, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Here's Pullum, who was one of the originators of GPSG, "Progress toward distinguishing clearly between generative and model-theoretic syntactic frameworks has not been smooth or swift, and the obfuscatory term ‘constraint-based’ has not helped." Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2019. What grammars are, or ought to be. In Stefan Müller & Petya Osenova (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 58–78. Bucharest: CSLI Publications. http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brett (talk • contribs) 23:22, 19 May 2020 (UTC)