French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE
ABSTRACT The French clitic pro-form en represents a wide range of heterogeneous constituents: de-PP complements and adjuncts, partitive objects, and prepositionless objects of cardinals. The main goal of this paper is to formalize this relationship computationally in terms of genitive case. This is...
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| author | Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar Christoph Schwarze |
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| description | ABSTRACT The French clitic pro-form en represents a wide range of heterogeneous constituents: de-PP complements and adjuncts, partitive objects, and prepositionless objects of cardinals. The main goal of this paper is to formalize this relationship computationally in terms of genitive case. This is apparently the first non-transformational counterpart to Kayne (1975)’s unified analysis, which derives en from a deep structure with de by means of syntactic transformations. Transformational grammars are problematic from the parsing perspective. In order to test our analysis automatically on a large amount of data, we implemented it in a computational grammar of French in the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) formalism using the XLE system. This non-transformational framework is particularly fit for expressing systematic relationships between heterogeneous structures and has successfully been used for the implementation of natural language grammars since the 1980s. We tested the implementation on 320 grammatical sentences and on an equal number of ungrammatical examples. It analyzed all grammatical examples and blocked almost 95% of the ungrammatical ones, showing a high empirical adequacy of the grammar. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-30324cd750c94f37a3d706a937688b192022-12-22T04:13:26ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloDELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada1678-460X2021-03-0137110.1590/1678-460x2021370104French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLELeonel Figueiredo de Alencarhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8148-6994Christoph Schwarzehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6103-9721ABSTRACT The French clitic pro-form en represents a wide range of heterogeneous constituents: de-PP complements and adjuncts, partitive objects, and prepositionless objects of cardinals. The main goal of this paper is to formalize this relationship computationally in terms of genitive case. This is apparently the first non-transformational counterpart to Kayne (1975)’s unified analysis, which derives en from a deep structure with de by means of syntactic transformations. Transformational grammars are problematic from the parsing perspective. In order to test our analysis automatically on a large amount of data, we implemented it in a computational grammar of French in the Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) formalism using the XLE system. This non-transformational framework is particularly fit for expressing systematic relationships between heterogeneous structures and has successfully been used for the implementation of natural language grammars since the 1980s. We tested the implementation on 320 grammatical sentences and on an equal number of ungrammatical examples. It analyzed all grammatical examples and blocked almost 95% of the ungrammatical ones, showing a high empirical adequacy of the grammar.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502021000100403&tlng=engenitive caseprepositionspronominal cliticscomputational linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar Christoph Schwarze French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada genitive case prepositions pronominal clitics computational linguistics |
| title | French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE |
| title_full | French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE |
| title_fullStr | French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE |
| title_full_unstemmed | French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE |
| title_short | French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE |
| title_sort | french de and en as expressions of the genitive case a unified analysis within lfg and computational implementation in xle |
| topic | genitive case prepositions pronominal clitics computational linguistics |
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