Hi everybody!
I'd like to implement complex categories in my Brazilian Portuguese
LFG/XLE grammar. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any toy grammar with
this feature to guide my first steps.
Following Butt et. al. (1999:192) and Stefanie Dipper's dissertation
from 2003, I've tried to implement the attached toy DP grammar using
complex categories, but none of the grammatical examples in the
testfile.lfg are parsed. Could someone explain to me where I'm wrong
and possibly correct the grammar so that these examples are parsed?
Just for the sake of learning how to deal with complex categories,
I've assumed that DPs like "we Brazilians" are headed by the personal
pronoun (i.e. D[pron]). In the case of D[pron], NP is optional. With
an article as head (i.e. D[art]), however, NP is obligatory.
Many thanks in advance.
Best,
Leonel
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Prof. Dr. Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures /
Linguistics Master's & PhD Program
Federal University of Ceará
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