Logical Grammar with Dependencies as Categories

Abstract

The major part of the paper discusses a multimodal logical grammar in which dependency relations are used as basic categories. This logical grammar is being developed with the aim to provide an analytic persepctive to the Praguian function descriptions of language. In the final part of the paper the application to word order is discussed, particularly deep word order regarding modifiers and heads. It is argued that the deep word order provides structural indication of informativity. The paper concludes with discussing how such indications can be inferred, and how the Praguian notions of topic and focus relate to these indications.