Eckhard Bick - VISL

adjective with obligatorily animal head ('carnívoro' - kødædende)
adjective with obligatorily plant head ('epífito' - epifytisk)
The remaining verbs and adjectives are assigned tags for all 4 possibilities (,
, , for verbs, and , , , for adjectives), after the
morphological and syntactic levels, which are then disambiguated on the valency level
and used for polysemy resolution in the semantics module.
This way, only the "safe", unambiguous selection restrictions are accessible on
the first two levels of disambiguation, and so far (1998), on the morpho-syntactic levels
only some 25 rules make direct use of this kind of information, like in
MAP (@>N) TARGET (ADJ) IF (0 ) (-1 LINK 0 MS) (1 INF) (NOT 0 ); # e.g.
um leve erguer de ombros. (Map prenominal function onto an adjective preceded by the male
singular definite article and followed by an infinitive, if its doesn't obligatorily select for a human
head.)
REMOVE (@#ICL-SUBJ>) (*1 V3S BARRIER @#FS LINK 0 V-HUM); (Remove the subject
reading for an infinitive clause, if the next third person singular verb takes a human subject and is
not isolated by a finite subclause complementiser.)
On the other hand, the tag for adjectives can be used in order to determine whether
an ambiguous NP head noun is +HUM or not, a feature that is more widely used in the
grammar, and thus linked to pre-existing rules. The hybrid nominal set HUM-N/A, that
lists +HUM semantic class tags proper for nouns alongside with the "left selection" tag
for adjectives, is another example of the present - indirect - use of the feature.
3.7.2.2 Level interaction: Secondary semantic tags
One of the big syntactic ambiguities for nouns is the one between subject (@SUBJ) and
(direct, "accusative") object (@ACC). Other functions, like appositions (@APP) or
argument of preposition (@P - @SUBJ> and @