Eckhard Bick - VISL

NP N noun
PROP proper noun
(PROP can not normally
govern arguments or
comparatives, and only
very few post-adjuncts)
(independent pronouns,
PERS and SPEC, substitute
for whole NPs, and can’t
usually have dependents,
with the exception of set
operators and, sometimes,
'todo':todo ele )
PP som @N<
(postnominal)
respeito por
cumplicidade com
afinidade para
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@>N or @N< (pre- or postnominal),
consisting of:
AP adjective phrase
grande sertão
sugestão íntima
PP (only post-nominal)
..a janela da sala
..Pedro da Silva
DET, usually pre-nominal
(also more than one)
estas três árvores,
o João, mais leite,
proposta sua
ADV as "set operator"
só o pai , até o pai ..
dinheiro demais
AS-KOMP comparative
small clause
um homem como um forte,
qual um touro
Prenominal adjects(@>N) are always modifiers (i.e. not valency governed), and can be
filled iteratively with more than one element from the word classes of DET, NUM, ADJ
and, rarely, PCP. Though only one syntactic function (@>N) is used by the parser,
permutation tests show that different subtypes do exist and can be defined in
syntagmatic terms. These subtypes are the basis for the lexical subdivisions of the DET
class listed in ch. 2.2.5.2, and they enter the system at the secondary tag level. CG-rules
depend very much on word order, and subclasses that can be defined in terms of word
order, are therefore useful for disambiguation 140 .
A
predeterminers
B
demonstratives
C
possessives
differentiators
D
quantifiers
NUM
ADJ
ATTR
ADJ
(PCP)
HEAD
N
(PROP)
(ADJ)
(PCP)
ATTR
ADJ
PCP
PP
(DET)
140 Right of the copula ‘são’, for instance, a quantifier like ‘poucos’ cannot be subject complement @ são poucos @>N animais no mundo.