ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various techniques of grammar fragments for areas of English syntax not covered in this chapter as well as applying them to languages other than English. Since the grammar formalism is expressed as a series of Prolog facts and rules and since such expressions are sometimes referred to as definite clauses', grammars of this sort are known as definite clause grammars (DCGs). The result is powerful and flexible grammar formalism, well-suited to describing a wide range of syntactic constructions. A grammar rule's symbols are either terminal or non-terminal. French nouns are classified as being either masculine or feminine. English personal pronouns take on different forms depending upon whether they are in subject or object pronouns. Subject pronouns are said to take the nominative case and object pronouns the accusative case. The final extension to the coverage of the verb phrase (VP) to be discussed is the introduction of auxiliary verbs.
