Computational Grammar of Inverted Constructions in Modern Hebrew
Project description
- Objective
- To design and implement a computational grammar of a fragment of
Modern Hebrew, focusing on inverted constructions.
- Researchers
- Nurit Melnik
- Status
- Complete
- Funding
- Israeli Science Foundation (grant 136/01),
The Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de
Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary
Applications of Computer Science and VATAT
Abstract
Verb-initial constructions are those in which the verb appears in a
clause-initial position and is followed by the subject. Under the
assumption that the default word order in Modern Hebrew is
subject-verb-object, this type of a construction is considered
inverted.
In my dissertation I provided a formal analysis of verb-initial
constructions in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
(HPSG). An important feature of HPSG, which distinguishes it from
competing frameworks, such as Chomsky's Government and Binding theory
and its variants, is its underlying mathematical formalism. As such,
grammatical theories in HPSG can be implemented and consequently
tested against `real' data. The main objective of this project is to
develop a computational implementation of the grammar which I have
proposed in my dissertation and to test it against `real' corpus data.
Resources
None.
Publications
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Nurit Melnik.
Extending partial pro-drop in Modern Hebrew: A comprehensive analysis.
In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG07
Conference, pages 173-193. Stanford, CA, July 2007.
PDF.
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Nurit Melnik.
Hybrid Agreement as a Conflict Resolution Strategy.
In Stephan Müller, ed., Proceedings of the HPSG06
Conference, pages 228-246, Varna, Bulgaria, July 2006.
PDF.
- Nurit Melnik.
A Constructional Approach to Verb-Initial Constructions In Modern
Hebrew, Cognitive Linguistics 17(2):153-198, 2006.
- Nurit Melnik.
From 'hand-written' to computationally implemented HPSG
theories,
Research on Language and Computation 5(2):199-236, June
2007.
- Nurit Melnik.
From "hand-written" to implemented HPSG theories.
In Proceedings of HPSG-2005,
Lisbon, Portugal, August 2005.
[pdf][slides]
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