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Eckhard Bick - VISL

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oth for the simple ambiguities introduced by the CG mapping module (not focused<br />

upon in this section) and the more difficult text immanent ambiguities:<br />

(8a) Falava VFIN com PRP o DET homem N que SPEC ama VFIN.<br />

(8b) Falava VFIN com PRP o DET homem N que SPEC ama VFIN outra ADJ mulher N.<br />

(8c) Falava VFIN com PRP o DET homem N que SPEC outra ADJ mulher N ama VFIN.<br />

(8d) Falava VFIN com PRP os DET homens N que SPEC outra ADJ mulher N amam<br />

VFIN.<br />

In the example sentence (8a), in its input form to the syntactic module, que has<br />

already been identified as relative pronoun by the morphological CG-module, and<br />

can therefore be used for chunking - it identifies an important piece of syntactic<br />

form, the break between main clause and subclause, and - being a relative - even<br />

suggests the subclause's function: postnominal modifier (@#FS-N

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