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Preliminary Recommendations

 

Working procedures

The basic working procedure followed throughout consists in establishing grammatical equivalences relating pairs of system-specific coding schemes. These equivalences provide the basis for an inter-theoretical formalism which is particularly suitable for characterising the weak equivalence of various grammar frameworks and therefore pre-empts the danger that the common specification turns into yet another framework, rather than providing an edited union of existing frameworks. The general strategy adopted in implementing this working procedure can be summarised as follows: