Dynamic Syntax (DS: Kempson et al. 2001; Cann et al. 2005) is an action-based grammar formalism which models the process of natural language understanding as monotonic tree growth. This paper presents an introduction to the notions of incrementality and underspecification and update, drawing on the assumptions made by DS. It lays out the tools of the theoretical framework that are necessary to understand the accounts developed in the other contributions to the Special Issue. It also represents an up-to-date account of the framework, combining the developments that have previously remained distributed in a diverse body of literature.

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动态语法

动态语法（DS：Kempson et al. 2001；Cann et al. 2005）是一种基于动作的语法形式主义，它将自然语言理解过程建模为单调树生长。本文基于 DS 所做的假设，介绍了增量、规范不足和更新的概念。它列出了理论框架的工具，这些工具对于理解对《特刊》的其他贡献中所阐述的内容是必不可少的。它也代表了该框架的最新情况，结合了以前在各种文献中仍然散布的发展。