Paper

Modeling Clausal Complementation for a Grammar Engineering Resource

Authors
  • Olga Zamaraeva (University of Washington)
  • Kristen Howell (University of Washington)
  • Emily M. Bender (University of Washington)

Abstract

We present a grammar engineering library for modeling objectival declarative clausal complementation patterns attested cross-linguistically. Our primary contribution is positing a set of syntactico-semantic analyses couched within a variant of the HPSG syntactic formalism and integrating them with a variety of phenomena already implemented in a grammar engineering toolkit. We evaluate the addition to the system on testsuites from genetically diverse languages that were not considered during development.

Keywords: grammar engineering, hpsg, clausal complements, subordinate clauses, cross-linguistic analysis, grammar matrix

How to Cite:

Zamaraeva, O., Howell, K. & Bender, E. M., (2019) “Modeling Clausal Complementation for a Grammar Engineering Resource”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2(1), 39-49. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/dygn-c796

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Published on
01 Jan 2019