</term>
in the
<term>
functional structure
</term>
#24881In contrast to compositional approaches, we present a deductive approach to assembling meanings, based on reasoning with constraints, which meshes well with the unordered nature ofinformation in the functional structure.
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</term>
has been used to provide the
<term>
syntactic information
</term>
necessary for constraining
<term>
derivations
#24818More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide thesyntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
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<term>
rules
</term>
for determining the
<term>
meaning
</term>
of larger units given the
<term>
meanings
#24770Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining themeaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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composition
</term>
. More recently , the
<term>
functional structure
</term>
of
<term>
LFG
</term>
has been used to
#24808More recently, thefunctional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constraining derivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
other,19-3-E93-1013,ak
information
</term>
necessary for constraining
<term>
derivations
</term>
of
<term>
meaning
</term>
in a cross-linguistically
#24823More recently, the functional structure of LFG has been used to provide the syntactic information necessary for constrainingderivations of meaning in a cross-linguistically uniform format.
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theorising is discussed in some detail .
<term>
Semantic theories
</term>
of
<term>
natural language
</term>
associate
#24750In addition, the role of modal languages (and in particular, what we have called layered modal languages) as constraint formalisms for linguistic theorising is discussed in some detail.Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.
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meaning
</term>
of larger units given the
<term>
meanings
</term>
of their parts . Traditionally ,
#24776Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given themeanings of their parts.
other,6-1-E93-1013,ak
<term>
natural language
</term>
associate
<term>
meanings
</term>
with
<term>
utterances
</term>
by providing
#24756Semantic theories of natural language associatemeanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the meanings of their parts.