Eckhard Bick - VISL

@AUX, 'know how to, can'
@MV, 'taste'
@MV, 'taste of'
@MV, 'know of'
[@ = syntactic function: MV =main verb, AUX=auxiliary; =valency: =transitive, governs infinitive,
=with adverbial object, =with prepositional object, a^ =preposition "a", de^ =preposition "de"; morphology: IMPF
=imperfeito tense, PERF =perfeito tense]
Finally, monosemous (or semantically already disambiguated) words can help
disambiguate those that are (still) semantically ambiguous. Thus the Portuguese
preposition 'de' translates as 'fra' (‘from’) if its argument is a place (+LOC), but 'af'
(‘made of’) if the argument of the preposition is a word denoting a substance (e.g. de
ouro 'af guld' - 'made of gold'). The genitive is to be used if the complement is a person
(+HUM: o cachorro do homem 'mandens hund' - 'the man's dog'). Again, the relevant
discriminators have to be introduced into the lexicon, in the form of semantically
enriched valency information (so-called selection restrictions).
(12) The following sentence illustrates some of the possibilities:
apesar=de [apesar=de] PRP @ADVL> 'på trods af' (in spite of) *
a [a] DET F S @>N 'den' (the)
advertência [advertência] N F S @P< 'råd' (advice)
de [de] PRP @N< '(genitiv)' (of) *
o [o] DET M S @>N 'den' (-)
meu [meu] DET M S @>N 'min' (my)
pai [pai] N M S @P< 'far' (father)
,
que [que] SPEC M/F S/P @#FS-N< 'som' (who)
não [não] ADV @ADVL> 'ikke' (not)
gosta [gostar] V PR 3S IND VFIN @FMV 'kunne lide' (liked)
de [de] PRP @N 'den' (-)
minha [meu] DET F S @>N 'min' (my)
nova [novo] ADJ F S @>N 'ny' (new)
vida [vida] N F S @P< 'liv' (life)
,
comprei [comprar] V PS 1S IND VFIN @FMV 'købe' ([I] bought)
uma [um] DET F S @>N 'en' (a)
carroçada [carroçada] N F S @