Eckhard Bick - VISL

focusing function to the syntactic tags. É/era already needs a special @FOC> tag in
"slang" sentences like
(8) ele trabalha é com grande entusiasmo. [he works IS with great enthusiasm].
Using the @FOC tag 162 in the above b/c-cases, and referring the que back to the focus
constituent, we get:
(9)
Era da Maria que gostava.
V VFIN PRP PROP KS V VFIN
@FOC> @PIV> @P< @FOC< @MV
Aqui é que você deve ficar.
ADV V VFIN KS PERS V VFIN V INF
@ADV> @ @FAUX @#ICL-AUX<
Many CG-rules are based on clause-internal tag uniqueness. It is bad enough that
morphological disambiguation thus has to cope with two VFIN in the same sentence,
but this is somewhat remedied by the intervening que being allowed to retain its
"isolating" KS-tag. And at least on the syntactic level, this way, there is only one @MV,
and no @#FS-tag for the que, which could cause rule context problems with a missing
valency bound constituent in the resulting @#FS-subclause.
162 The @FOC tag is experimental and has not yet been introduced in the internet-version of the parser, which therefore
offers the alternative predicative analysis in the cleavage-focus cases (9) and two adjacent @FMV tags in the slang-sentence
case (8).
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