Sentence grammar, text grammar, and the evaluation problem

Hannes Rieser

pp. 276-299

in: Janos S. Petöfi, Hannes Rieser (eds), Studies in text grammar, Berlin, Springer, 1973

Abstract

0. The text grammars set up so far generalize the formal properties of specific types of sentence grammar.¹ This procedure, widely accepted among text linguists, led us to the assumption that text grammars developed from a specific type of sentence grammar will have the formal and empirical properties of this model sentence grammar. This assumption will be dealt with in this paper.² Another feature of the text grammars set up so far is closely connected with the theoretical and practical aims such text grammars try to meet: We think that not only the sentence grammar chosen as a model for the construction of a text grammar and the practical interests which led to its construction determine its theoretical power but also its supposed domain of application.