The Relation of Form and Function in Linguistic Theory and in a Multi-layer Treebank

Abstract

The aim of our contribution is to introduce a database of linguistic forms and their functions built with the use of the multi-layer annotated corpora of Czech, the Prague Dependency Treebanks. The purpose of the Prague Database of Forms and Functions (ForFun) is to help the linguists to study the form-function relation, which we assume to be one of the principal tasks of both theoretical linguistics and natural language processing.

We will also demonstrate possibilities of the exploitation of the ForFun database.

Keywords

• relation
• form
• function
• linguistic
• theory
• multi
• layer
• treebank