Linguistic Modeling for Multilingual Machine Translation

60 CHAPTER 6. F{STRUCTURES
(87)
8
head=
cat=n &
( max=no
>< 8
9 >=
max=yes
F n
><
8 9
< pform=nil,
>= head=
=
type=abs, )
ehead=
>:
>: : wh=no, >
>
neg=no
8 8
9 9
< < cat=n, = =
: head= max=no,
:
ehead= type=def
9
ehead=
type=def
o =)
After the determiner has selected the noun, the determiner is responsible for the
control of the following functional projections. This is realized by the default
alternation on the determiner, requiring pform=nil to be instantiated if this
structure becomes a phrasal non-head (88) 4 .
(88)
head=HEAD
2 8
93
lex=der,
cat=d,
head=
><
&
ehead= type=def
>=
( max=no
max=yes
)&
ehead= pform=nil
>:
>
HEAD
8
9
lex=mann,
><
8
9>=
6
< cat=n, =
7
4 head= max=no,
>: :
5
ehead= type=def >
The mechanism for the assignment of default values described above has to
be completed by a second mechanism. Since every functional head solves the
default alternation of its complement withthemax=no disjuncts, this may have
undesired results if one intermediate function word has not been realized, as
in the case where a preposition directly selects a noun. In this case, the noun
loses its default alternation, but no value for `determination' is instantiated as
was the case in (87). This structure would thus be compatible with any value
for 'determination' (type).
4 [Netter94] in this case simply assumes that the DP is functionally complete, which of
course is not true if semantically empty prepositions or topic makers have to be added (e.g.
Auf das Auto jedoch war er nicht stolz vs. *Das Auto jedoch war er nicht stolz).
TP
PP
DP
auf das Auto jedoch