*) Note: The term "grammar" is used here in a rather traditional European sense (i.e.: collection of morphological oppositions and syntactic variations), unlike in the American Generative Linguistics (i.e.: as a set of production rules).

    Distributed Grammar is an integrated framework for Associative Semantics (AS) and Meta-Informative Centering (MIC) theory. It is being designed as a multi-dimensional modelling approach to the problems of natural language understanding.

    The rule-only-based analysis of tree-like structuring of languages needs to be replaced by the distributed logic analysis of web-like representations which are more suitable for building meaning representations within intelligent distributed (multi-processor) systems.

    In Distributed Grammar grounding (refinement, compression, accommodation and the like) goes across the other domains of discourse analysis such as (a) the communication space (backward and forward looking units or, in other words, anaphora and cataphora), (b) the cognition space ("known" and "unknown") as well as (c) knowledge space (including modality, temporality, aspectuality etc.). It can be considered therefore that grounding, refinement and accommodation play an additive and resolving role in conception (creativity), transmission and comprehension of semantic and pragmatic contents in human communication processes.