Fawcett (2010: 41):
In brief, we can say that the role of the realisation rules is to convert the selection expression of semantic features that is generated on a traversal of the network into a layer of the tree diagram representation of the sentence that is being built up. This concept is illustrated in Figure 2 of Appendix A, which has the potential to generate just eighteen different nominal groups.
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[1] This blurs the theoretical distinction between the process of instantiation (the selection of features and the activation of realisation statements) during logogenesis ('the sentence that is being built up') with the realisation relation between the paradigmatic axis ('features') and the syntagmatic axis ('tree diagram').
[2] The illustration of the concept in Figure 2 of Appendix A is as follows:
It can be seen that this largely presents realisation rules as acting on individual features, rather than selection expressions, contrary to Fawcett's claims above, and that individual semantic features include the meanings of individual lexical items.
[1] This blurs the theoretical distinction between the process of instantiation (the selection of features and the activation of realisation statements) during logogenesis ('the sentence that is being built up') with the realisation relation between the paradigmatic axis ('features') and the syntagmatic axis ('tree diagram').
[2] The illustration of the concept in Figure 2 of Appendix A is as follows:
It can be seen that this largely presents realisation rules as acting on individual features, rather than selection expressions, contrary to Fawcett's claims above, and that individual semantic features include the meanings of individual lexical items.
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