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

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Example 3: SynAF--conformant syntactic annotation <strong>of</strong> the Spanish<br />

sentence 'Díselo al medico.'<br />

4.2 Semitic Languages<br />

Semitic languages br<strong>in</strong>g with them a particular set <strong>of</strong> challenges for<br />

modell<strong>in</strong>g l<strong>in</strong>guistic data. The follow<strong>in</strong>g two subsections demonstrate how<br />

MAF and SynAF/ can work together to represent two problematic<br />

constructions: dependencies for object clitics and constituents for construct<br />

state compounds.<br />

4.2.1 Arabic enclitic objects<br />

Much like Romance languages, both Arabic and Hebrew have the ability to<br />

express pronom<strong>in</strong>al objects as enclitic pronouns that are written together with<br />

the verb, form<strong>in</strong>g one word form on the orthographic level [9], e.g. <strong>in</strong><br />

Standard Arabic:<br />

رأيت الملك<br />

ra’aitu l-malik ‘I saw the k<strong>in</strong>g’<br />

see.PF.1.SG DEF-k<strong>in</strong>g<br />

رأيته<br />

ra’aitu-hu<br />

‘I saw him’<br />

see.PF.1.SG-3.SG.M<br />

Modell<strong>in</strong>g a syntax tree <strong>of</strong> the dependencies between verb and object can be<br />

difficult and usually leads to make the design decision <strong>of</strong> tokeniz<strong>in</strong>g enclitic<br />

object pronouns as separate word forms. Us<strong>in</strong>g MAF word forms it is<br />

possible to keep such orthographic str<strong>in</strong>gs together while referr<strong>in</strong>g directly to<br />

constituent elements <strong>in</strong> the SynAF representation. The follow<strong>in</strong>g<br />

representation gives a possible solution for a unified representation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

examples above, similar to the Spanish case.<br />

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Example 4: MAF representation <strong>of</strong> the Arabic clitic examples above.<br />

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