A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch
A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch
A Treebank-based Investigation of IPP-triggering Verbs in Dutch
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A genitive can occur with complex predicate, which is composed <strong>of</strong> one<br />
noun or adjective and a light verb. For example, pratIkshA karnA <strong>in</strong> (5) is a<br />
complex predicate because it is a multiword expression denot<strong>in</strong>g s<strong>in</strong>gle event:<br />
5. rAm sItA kI pratIkshA kar rahA thA<br />
Ram Sita-gen wait do be-3pr pst<br />
„Ram was wait<strong>in</strong>g for Sita.‟<br />
6. rAm kA jAnA sambhav nahI hE<br />
rAm-gen go-VN possible neg be-3pr<br />
„It is not possible for Ram to go.‟<br />
An argument <strong>of</strong> a verb regularly takes genitive <strong>in</strong> the context <strong>of</strong> verbal<br />
noun form <strong>of</strong> a verb. In (6), rAm is an argument <strong>of</strong> the verb jA „go‟. The same<br />
holds even when some participants <strong>in</strong>tervenes the two as illustrated <strong>in</strong> (7).<br />
Another significant occurrence <strong>of</strong> genitive is when the head is elided as <strong>in</strong> (8):<br />
7. rAm kA sItA ke sAth jAnA sambhav nahI hE<br />
rAm-gen Sita with go-VN possible neg be<br />
„It is not possible for Ram to go with Sita.‟<br />
8. yaha khAnA kal kA hE<br />
This food yesterday-gen be-3pr<br />
„This food is yesterday‟s (food).‟<br />
We have exam<strong>in</strong>ed various distributions <strong>of</strong> genitive data <strong>in</strong> H<strong>in</strong>di. Table 2<br />
attempts to tabulate all types <strong>of</strong> genitive that we have discussed <strong>in</strong> this section:<br />
CASE CONSTRUCTION TYPE EXAMPLE<br />
Case 1 Noun gen – Noun rAm kA ghar<br />
„Ram‟s house‟<br />
Case 2 Noun gen – Verb rAm kA ek beTA hE<br />
„Ram has one son‟<br />
Case 3 Noun gen – Complex<br />
predicate<br />
rAm sItA kI pratIkshA kar rahA thA<br />
„Ram was wait<strong>in</strong>g for Sita‟<br />
Case 4 Noun gen – Verbal Noun rAm kA jAnA<br />
„Ram leav<strong>in</strong>g‟<br />
Case 5 Noun gen – Head elided yaha khAnA kal kA hE<br />
„This (food) is yesterday‟s food‟<br />
Table 2: Different type <strong>of</strong> genitive data <strong>in</strong> H<strong>in</strong>di<br />
3 Brief Description <strong>of</strong> H<strong>in</strong>di <strong>Treebank</strong><br />
The H<strong>in</strong>di-Urdu dependency <strong>Treebank</strong> is be<strong>in</strong>g developed follow<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
analysis <strong>of</strong> the Pan<strong>in</strong>ian grammatical model (Bharati et.al. 2009). As<br />
observed <strong>in</strong> Bhatt et al. (2009), “the model <strong>of</strong>fers a syntactico-semantic level<br />
<strong>of</strong> l<strong>in</strong>guistic knowledge with an especially transparent relationship between<br />
the syntax and the semantics.” The dependency relations are <strong>of</strong> two types:<br />
kAraka and non-kAraka. Karaka relations <strong>in</strong>dicate the roles that various<br />
participants play with respect to a verb. There are six kAraka relations: karta,<br />
karma, karana, apadana, sampradana and adhikarana. kAraka relations<br />
capture one very significant semantic-pragmatic <strong>in</strong>formation which is known<br />
as vivakshA that can be translated as „speaker‟s choice‟. Sentences are treated<br />
as a series <strong>of</strong> chunks each hav<strong>in</strong>g a head and one or more optional modifier <strong>of</strong><br />
the head as shown below. The head <strong>of</strong> each chunk is highlighted.<br />
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