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| Introduction | |
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| Language, Grammar. PROLOG | |
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| A Broad Definition of Language | |
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| Narrowing the Definition of Language | |
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| Time for an Example | |
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| The Goals of a Grammar | |
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| Narrowing the Definition of Grammar Further | |
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| Time for Another Example | |
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| Grammars as Deductive Systems | |
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| Why PROLOG? | |
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| Facing Infinity and Indeterminacy | |
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| Other Preliminaries | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Phonology: The Nature of Linguistic Sound | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Phones of Language | |
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| Representing Phones in PROLOG | |
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| Phone Properties | |
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| Natural Classes of Phones | |
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| The Syllable | |
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| The Sounds of English | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Semantics: The Nature of Linguistic Meaning | |
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| What is Meaning? | |
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| Implementing the Procedural Theory of Meaning | |
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| Proper Names | |
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| Unary Predicates | |
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| Binary Predicates: Preliminaries | |
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| Binary Predicates: Kinterms | |
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| Binary Predicates: Deictics | |
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| Ternary Predicates | |
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| Sentences: Declaratives | |
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| Sentences: Interrogatives | |
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| Historical Note | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Morphology I: The Combinatorics of Words | |
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| Whence Words Come | |
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| Time for a Concrete Example | |
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| Prefixation | |
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| Suffixation | |
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| Infixation | |
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| Circumfixation | |
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| Interfixation | |
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| Reduplication | |
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| Metathesis | |
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| Truncation | |
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| Mutation | |
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| Suppletion | |
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| Recategorization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Morphology II: The Instantiation of Words | |
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| Missing Phonological Regularities | |
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| Assimilation: First Pass | |
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| Assimilation: Second Pass | |
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| Dissimilation | |
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| Syllabification | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Historical Note | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syntax I: The Nominal Clause | |
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| What Syntax is About | |
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| Modification | |
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| Quantification | |
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| Quantification in PROLOG | |
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| The Definite Article | |
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| Proper Names | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syntax II: The Verbal Clause | |
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| Verbs and Such | |
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| Argument Structure: Valence | |
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| Argument Structure: Binding | |
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| The Computational Complexity of Argument Structure | |
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| Historical Note | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syntax III: The Prepositional Clause | |
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| Government | |
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| Prepositional Phrases: Verbal Constructions | |
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| Prepositional Phrases: Nominal Constructions | |
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| More on Oblique Nominal Clauses | |
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| Oblique Nominal Clauses vs. Prepositional Phrases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Syntax IV: Other Topics | |
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| The Adverbial Clause | |
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| The English Auxiliary | |
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| Inversion | |
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| The Passive Voice | |
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| Control Structures | |
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| Subordination | |
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| Coordination | |
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| Historical Note: Generative Grammar | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading: Definite Clause Grammar | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Conclusion: The Computational Complexity of Language | |
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| The Computational Complexity of a Grammar | |
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| How Complex Are Our Grammars? | |
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| How Complex is Language? | |
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| Shortcomings of PROLOG Programming | |
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| Facing Left-Recursion | |
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| Some of the Perils Ahead | |
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| Getting Started with PROLOG on a Windows Platform | |
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| How to Install a PROLOG Interpreter | |
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| How to Install all the Programs Discussed in this Book | |
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| How to Consult an Installed PROLOG Program | |
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| How to Create a New PROLOG Program | |
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| How to Revise an Installed PROLOG Program | |
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| How to Display Phonetic Characters Properly | |
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| Getting Started with PROLOG on a Mac Platform | |
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| How to Install a PROLOG Interpreter | |
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| How to Install all the Programs Discussed in this Book | |
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| How to Consult an Installed PROLOG Program | |
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| How to Create a New PROLOG Program | |
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| How to Revise an Installed PROLOG Program | |
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| Tutorials and Other Online Resources for PROLOG | |
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| The Efficiency of a Simple Grammar: Spanish.swipl | |
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| The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| Fundamental Properties of English Phones | |
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| Calculating the Complexity of a Grammar | |
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| Program Listings | |
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| References | |