Eckhard Bick - VISL

used, or even mapped, in the Constraint Grammar, drawing on syntactic classes and
individual base forms. Of course, semantic sets are not tags, and while any set can be
used to disambiguate other material (active disambiguation), only lexicon derived or
mapped tags can themselves be disambiguated (passive disambiguation).
Some of the grammar’s more semantically motivated set definitions (SETS
section) are listed below:
LIST V-EXIST = "existir" "faltar" "haver" "ter" ;
LIST V-HUM = @%vH @%+interr @%de^vtpK @%como^vtpK @%como^vta ;
LIST V-HUM& = @%vH @%sH ;
LIST V-TING = @%vN ;
LIST V-TING = @%vN @%sN ;
LIST V-NON-HUM = @%vN @%vA @%vB ;
LIST V-NON-HUM& = @%vN @%sN @%vA @%sA @%vB @%sB ;
LIST V-NON-TING = @%vH @%vA @%vB ;
LIST V-NON-TING& = @%vH @%sH @%vA @%sA @%vB @%sB ;
LIST V-ALL = V ;
SET V-HUM-SAFE = V-ALL - V-NON-HUM& ;
SET V-TING-SAFE = V-ALL - V-NON-TING& ;
SET V-NON-HUM-SAFE = V-ALL - V-HUM& ;
SET V-NON-TING-SAFE = V-ALL - V-TING& ;
LIST V-DYR = @%vA ;
LIST V-DYR& = @%vA @%sA ;
LIST V-KOMERC = "cobrar" "comprar" "pagar" "vender" ;
LIST V-NONCONTROL = @%vN @%va+TID> "achar" “estar" "gostar" "haver" "parecer" "ter" ;
LIST V-SPEAK = "admitir" "afirmar" "alfinetar" "analisar" "assegurar" "atirar" "bradar" "comemorar"
"confessar" “contar” "definir" "determinar" "dizer" "falar" "garantir" "gritar" "insistir" "lembrar"
"marcar" "observar" "planejar" "proclamar" “propor” "prosseguir" "rebater" "responder" "retrucar"
"saber" "sugerir" "testemunhar" ;
LIST V-STUD = "ler" "estudar" "ter" ;
LIST V-MOVE = @%va+DIR "andar" "cair" "chegar" "correr" "entrar" "escorregar" "girar" "ir"
"viajar" "vir" "voltar" ;
LIST V-MOVE-TR = @%vta+DIR "botar" "carregar" "colocar" "jogar" "levar" "pôr" "virar" ;
SET V-MOVE/TR = V-MOVE OR V-MOVE-TR ;
LIST V-NONCONTROL = "achar" "estar" "gostar" "haver" "parecer" "ter" ;
LIST V-EKFIN = "acabar" "chegar" "começar" "nascer" "romper" ;
LIST VT-NONPASS = "haver" "ter" ;
In the rule body (CONSTRAINTS section) of the semantic CG module, heads can be
subjected to polysemy disambiguation by semantic projections from their dependents
(modifiers or arguments), and the polysemy of dependents can be resolved by using
semantic projections from their heads.
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