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