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Light verb constructions with 'do' and 'be' in Hindi: A TAG analysis

  • University of Colorado Boulder

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Abstract

In this paper we present a Lexicalized Feature-based Tree-Adjoining Grammar analysis for a type of nominal predicate that occurs in combination with the light verbs "do" and "be" (Hindi kar and ho respectively). Light verb constructions are a challenge for computational grammars because they are a highly productive predicational strategy in Hindi. Such nominals have been discussed in the literature (Mohanan, 1997; Ahmed and Butt, 2011; Bhatt et al., 2013), but this work is a first attempt at a Tree-Adjoining Grammar (TAG) representation. We look at three possibilities for the design of elementary trees in TAG and explore one option in depth using Hindi data. In this analysis, the nominal is represented with all the arguments of the light verb construction, while the light verb adjoins into its elementary tree.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, LG-LP 2014 - in conjunction with 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014
EditorsJorge Baptista, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Christiane Fellbaum, Mikel Forcada, Chu-Ren Huang, Svetla Koeva, Cvetana Krstev, Eric Laporte
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages127-136
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781873769447
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, LG-LP 2014 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: Aug 24 2014 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, LG-LP 2014 - in conjunction with 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2014

Conference

Conference2014 Workshop on Lexical and Grammatical Resources for Language Processing, LG-LP 2014
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period08/24/14 → …

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