Introduction to "Gammatical Framework" - a programming language for writing grammars

Tentative course schedule

• 11 April -- introduction of the course; introducing GF; PDF
• 17 April -- following slides by Aarne Ranta (63-107); homework: try the grammars shown in the slides.
• 24 April -- continuing with the slides (108-160)
• 2 May -- practice: get the Food grammar working; Homework (due 23 May, Update: for those who sent a solution by May 23, corrections are possible untill May 30)
• 9 May -- practice: Food grammar for German
• 16 May -- No class: holiday
• 23 May -- discontinuous constituents, slides 161-170
• 30 May -- discussion related to the Homework 1
• 6 June -- practice: we do it together! A grammar of dates. Results are here
• 13 June -- practice: we continue with the grammar of dates. Homework 2
• 20 June -- Homework 2 due!
• 29 June -- Practice, reimplementation of German Foods grammar
• 4 July -- Resource grammar library, Homework 3
• 11 July --
• 18 July -- last class, Homework 3 due

Grading

Attendance:

• Attendance is not enforced
• if you attend, please participate;
• if you want to do something else -- do it not in class;

Grades:

• for a BN you need 60% of the total amount of points;
• AP: there are two ways to receive an AP:
  • 30% of your grade are assignments given during the course;
  • 70% of your grade is your project that you do after the course.
• Grade/percentage of points correspondence:
  • 1.0: 95 -- 100
  • 1.3: 91 -- 94
  • 1.7: 87 -- 90
  • 2.0: 83 -- 86
  • 2.3: 80 -- 82
  • 2.7: 75 -- 79
  • 3.0: 70 -- 74
  • 3.3: 65 -- 69
  • 3.7: 60 -- 65
  • 4.0: 50 -- 59