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

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Example 5: representation <strong>of</strong> dependency trees for the Arabic<br />

examples above.<br />

By po<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g at both word forms and tokens, the SynAF representation can<br />

conta<strong>in</strong> uniform syntax trees for both enclitic and separate objects.<br />

4.2.2 Hebrew construct states<br />

Both Hebrew and Arabic use a special left-headed construction similar to<br />

compound<strong>in</strong>g [10] to form complex nouns. This construction has a number <strong>of</strong><br />

special features. Most notably for the present discussion, it does not<br />

constitute an orthographic word form, but it allows only one article for the<br />

entire complex noun, placed between the head and the modifier (or before the<br />

last modifier <strong>in</strong> recursive complex nouns). The article, like all articles <strong>in</strong> both<br />

languages, is written together with the f<strong>in</strong>al modifier and does constitute one<br />

word form with it, but marks the entire construction as def<strong>in</strong>ite. The<br />

follow<strong>in</strong>g examples from Hebrew illustrate the position<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> the relevant<br />

elements <strong>in</strong> def<strong>in</strong>ite and <strong>in</strong>def<strong>in</strong>ite environments:<br />

בית חולים<br />

beit xolim ‘hospital’<br />

house sick.PL<br />

בית החולים<br />

beit ha-xolim ‘the hospital’<br />

house the-sick.PL<br />

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