Appendix LRS Principles
On this page we collect all the principles from the textbook that relate to the values of CONTENT and LOGICAL form. The principles appear in alphabetic order.
Content Principle
Content Principle:
In any headed phrase, the SYNSEM | LOCAL | CONTENT value of
the mother and the head daughter are identical.
Introduced in Chapter 5 (Simplified LRS)
Content-LF Principle
Content-LF Principle:
In any sign, the expressions in the
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CONTENT | MAIN value and the
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CONTENT | INDEX | VAR
value must be elements of the sign's LF | PARTS list.
External Content Principle
LRS Projection Principle
LRS Projection Principle (�final version going back to Penn and Richter (2004)): In every headed phrase,
- The EXTERNAL-CONTENT value of the mother and the
head daughter are identical.
- The INTERNAL-CONTENT value of the mother and the
head daughter are identical.
- The PARTS list of a phrase is the concatenation of the
PARTS lists of its daughters.
The final version of this principle is introduced in Chapter 6 of the textbook.