Eckhard Bick - VISL

The above sequences are examples of grammatical 3-part-np’s (DET-N-ADJ) with
number and gender agreement, followed by a finite verb in agreement with the noun
group. The sequences can be sanctioned as grammatical by CG rules like the following:
SELECT NMS IF (-1C DET-MS) (1C AMS) (2 V3S)
SELECT DET-FS IF (1C NFS) (2C AFS) (2 V3S)
REMOVE NS IF (-1C DET-P) (1C AP) (2 V3P)
On the syntactic level, linear structure is exploited more directly. Not least, adjacency of
syntactically “friendly” word classes is used to establish dependency relations. In the
above example, the np will be implicitely delineated by flat dependency links (cp.
chapter 4.1 and 4.6), with mapping or selecting rules expressing the grammaticality of
the following sequence (@>N = prenominal modifier, @N< = postnominal modifier):
... DET_@>N N ADJ_@N< V3 ...
MAP (@>N) TARGET (DET) IF (1C N) (2C ADJ) (3C V3)
MAP (@N