Eckhard Bick - VISL

Any further, more detailed, syntactic function (attributive, quantifier etc.) is already
obvious from the word’s word class tag 134 and its lexeme specific semantic traits. This
is why I have decided to abide by "mere" dependency marking, i.e. not to add a
functional tag at the base side of my dependency marker arrows.
134 One could say that even certain group types can be defined in terms of modifier word class rather than head word class.
Thus, while prepositions both head and define PP’s, I find it more modifier based definitions attractive for NP’s (which can
be definded as article or DEP allowing groups), and AP’s (the traditional adjective or adverb groups, which can be defined
as intensifier allowing groups). This way ‘os ricos’ and ‘o fazermos nada’ become NP’s, despite being headed by an
adjective and an infinitive, respectively.
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