ABSTRACT
Selection and linearization are linked so closely that they may really just form one integrated process. (However, linearization needs to be realized first.) Therefore, the author describes them both in this chapter. Selection decides which event refOs are verbalized by adding those event refOs to the traverse buffer. Linearization can reorder the refOs while they are in the traverse buffer to produce better verbalizations. The outer loop of selection runs until construction signals that it terminates, in which case selection does so as well. Linearization performs a linearization of utterances (subintentions, situations, events), not of phrases. A method of how phrases can be linearized incrementally within a model of the formulator is Performance Grammar. Linearization should be able to work according to different linearization strategies.
