text_combined: linguistic theory computational linguistics bod rens university amsterdam beyond grammar experiencebased theory language isbn 157586 150 x paper 157586 151 8 cloth 184 pp csli publications 1998 http csliwww stanford edu publications email pubs roslin stanford edu last years new approach linguistic analysis started emerge approach come known various labels dataoriented parsing corpusbased interpretation treebank grammar embodies assumption human language comprehension production works representations concrete past language experiences rather abstract grammatical rules models instantiate approach operate decomposing given representations fragments recomposing pieces analyze infinitely many new utterances probability model used choose collection different fragments make appropriate representation utterance book shows general approach apply various kinds linguistic representations ranging phrasestructure trees compositional semantic representations dialogue representations lexicalfunctional grammar representations resulting models utilized automatic acquisition language harnessing ambiguity processing spoken dialogue experiments models suggest productive units natural language defined minimal set rules principles need defined large redundant set previously experienced structures bod argues outcome important consequences linguistic theory leading entirely new view nature linguistic competence relationship linguistic theory models performance csli publications ventura hall stanford university stanford ca 943054115 telephone 650 7231839 fax 650 7252166 http cslipublications stanford edu