Hi,
I would like to know if there are any works on representing multiword expressions in LFG, taking their internal structure into account?
Example: United States of America
One option would be to treat "United States of America" as one element whose PRED is 'United States of America' and which corresponds to one leaf at c-structure.
The other option would be to say that "United States of America" has internal structure: States as PRED, United as ADJUNCT of States, of America also probably as an ADJUNCT of states. The problem is then how to represent the PRED for the entire unit (United States of America) – PRED-MWE?
Maybe the third option (a variant of the second one above) would be to set the PRED of the head of the MWE to the PRED corresponding to the entire unit (United States of America) and then ensure, using appropriate constraints, that the remaining parts of the MWE are present? (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)=c united (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)= of (^ ADJUNCT $ OBJ)= America
Are there other approaches? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
Best, Agnieszka
Hello Agnieszka,I have a paper on the topic "Accommodating Multiword Expressions in an Arabic LFG Grammar". It's from 2006, but you might find it of some relevance. http://attiaspace.com/Publications/ArabicMWEs.pdfBest,Mohammed
From: agnieszka.patejuk@googlemail.com Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:44:54 +0200 To: pargram@mailman.uni-konstanz.de; xle@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: [XLE] representation of MWEs in LFG?
Hi,
I would like to know if there are any works on representing multiword expressions in LFG, taking their internal structure into account?
Example: United States of America
One option would be to treat "United States of America" as one element whose PRED is 'United States of America' and which corresponds to one leaf at c-structure.
The other option would be to say that "United States of America" has internal structure: States as PRED, United as ADJUNCT of States, of America also probably as an ADJUNCT of states. The problem is then how to represent the PRED for the entire unit (United States of America) – PRED-MWE?
Maybe the third option (a variant of the second one above) would be to set the PRED of the head of the MWE to the PRED corresponding to the entire unit (United States of America) and then ensure, using appropriate constraints, that the remaining parts of the MWE are present? (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)=c united (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)= of (^ ADJUNCT $ OBJ)= America
Are there other approaches? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
Best, Agnieszka
There was some discussion of compounds in ParGram, which touched on the questions you are raising.
The decision was to use MOD for the internal modifiers (as opposed to ADJUNCT). I'll try to find the relevant slides and make a Wiki entry.
Miriam
On 8/26/14 3:44 PM, Agnieszka Patejuk wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if there are any works on representing multiword expressions in LFG, taking their internal structure into account?
Example: United States of America
One option would be to treat "United States of America" as one element whose PRED is 'United States of America' and which corresponds to one leaf at c-structure.
The other option would be to say that "United States of America" has internal structure: States as PRED, United as ADJUNCT of States, of America also probably as an ADJUNCT of states. The problem is then how to represent the PRED for the entire unit (United States of America) – PRED-MWE?
Maybe the third option (a variant of the second one above) would be to set the PRED of the head of the MWE to the PRED corresponding to the entire unit (United States of America) and then ensure, using appropriate constraints, that the remaining parts of the MWE are present? (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)=c united (^ ADJUNCT $ PRED FN)= of (^ ADJUNCT $ OBJ)= America
Are there other approaches? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
Best, Agnieszka
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