A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch

ple subcategorization frames may be added by ticking one or more of the boxes
INTRANS (intransitive), TRANS (transitive), COMP (sentential complement) or
XCOMP (infinitival complement). In some cases the subcategorization frame may
be more complicated, as in the case of particle verbs. These must be indicated by
ticking the box special, and they will then be further processed manually.
Norwegian is a language that allows many alternative forms within the officially
recognized orthography, both in stems and in endings. The extensive variation in the
official language is already represented in the existing Norwegian lexicon used together
with our grammar. Additional, marked variants must be classified into three
main categories called misspelling, dialect and old. Although these variants are not
part of the official language, we want to be able to analyze them, and therefore
enter them as variant forms in the appropriate inflectional paradigms. Sometimes
words are unintentionally or intentionally misspelled by the author, for instance to
represent a child’s spelling errors. These are classified as misspelling. In addition
to spelling errors, there are other sources of unconventional orthography. Especially
in novels, there are many cases where the author has wanted to imitate special
language forms, either to portray dialectal variation or a particular accent. Such
cases are classified as dialect. Finally, some unrecognized spellings may be archaic
forms, which are classified as old.
Figure 4: Adding word form variants
There are two different ways of entering variants into the morphology, dependent
on whether the deviation from the standard written form pertains to the inflectional
ending or the stem. When the variation may be regarded as only a de-