Functional generative description
Those Functional generative description (FGD, English Functional Generative Description) a linguistic formalism is, that in the 60's of Petr Sgall one sketched and one developed further in the following decades. It is the range that Functional grammar to assign. At the beginning the FGD was based on Chomskys of context-free grammar, now is appropriate for the formalism one at the basis. The FGD attaches in many aspects to the theses that on, however at the same time that considers the newest developments within the range . Those , , morphonologische, analytic and tektogrammatische. Simplifying can one to say that it on each level two kinds of units gives, which in a compositional relationship to each other, whereby the unit, which represents a function, on which directly high-lying level as form is understood. It was for a long time disputed whether the analytic level is necessary.
In the context of the FGD also those becomes current sentence arrangement considers, which usually meaning is. Like that the following two sentences are not necessarily identical:
- In Vorarlberg one speaks German.
- German one speaks in Vorarlberg.
Around misunderstandings with the evaluation of Grammatikalitaet and Meaning meanings to prevent, the term of the strict became imported:
- Two linguistic expressions are strictly equivalent, if it in all the same meaning have.
According to this definition is that Mode verbi in meaning, because the following two sentences are not strictly equivalent, although they are represented on the tektogrammatischen level by the same structure.:
- Max one photographs Katharina.
- Katharina is photographed by max.
There is at least one context, in which the two sentences of the importance are not identical, if one the adverb gladly inserts.
On the FGD is based to a large extent at that developed Prager Dependenzkorpus (PDT, English Prague Dependency Treebank). The formalism and the PDT found partial use in some projects at that .
