D3.3 Very basic grammar for I Revision 0.1
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Being the PRED-ST at the HEAD level, his value is simply passed up given the Head
Feature Principle.
2.2.1. Still missing...
"Undefined" or "defined and modified" noun phrases are not yet managed by the current
version of the italian grammar. By now, all nouns are considered NOT predicative. The same
restrictive and simplified approach has been adopted, by now, for adverbial phrases (NOT
predicative). As a consequence, sentences like "il telefono è un oggetto" [the telephon is an
object] or "il mio amico è fuori" [my friend is outside], though acceptable, are simply not
parsed.
2.3 PFORM Selection (for verb arguments)
Prepositions have a PFORM (introduced at the HEAD level) assigned in the lexicon. The
PFORM value is assigned at the prepositional phrases by virtue of the Head Feature
Principle. The purpose of selecting the right PFORM required for a given argument of a given
verb is pursued by means of the synsem-type which a given verb belongs to: e.g., a verb like
"appartenere" takes a PP object, governed by the "a" preposition: this verb inherits from the
"intrans-a-select" which has a SYNSEM "obl1-a-select-synsem" (see "letypes.tdl" and
"categories.tdl"):
Dostları ilə paylaş: