Eckhard Bick - VISL

(3b) entaente ALT xxxaente ALT xxxe ALT xxx
"entaenter" V IMP 2S VFIN
"entaentir" V IMP 2S VFIN ###
"entaenter" V PR 3S IND VFIN
"entaentir" V PR 3S IND VFIN ###
"entaentar" V PR 1/3S SUBJ VFIN
"entaente" N F S
"entaente" N M S
Apart from word-internal disambiguation according to Karlsson's law
(concerning minimal derivational complexity, cf. chapter 3.4), the lexical analyser
module doesn't do any disambiguation - this is left to the CG-module. Thus, the word
class choice between V and N will be contextual (and rule based), as well as the
morphological sub-choice of mood and tense (IMP - PR IND) for the verb, and
gender (M - F) for the noun. In the prototypical case of a preceding article, the verb
reading is ruled out by
(4a) REMOVE (V) IF (-1 ART)
and the gender choice is then taken by agreement rules such as
(4b) REMOVE (N M) IF (- 1C DET) (NOT -1 M)
REMOVE (N F) IF (- 1C DET) (NOT -1 F)
Consider the following examples of "unanalysable" words from real corpus
sentences, where the final output, after morphological contextual disambiguation, is
given:
(5a) inventimanhas ALT xxxas (also: one ADJ and three rare V-readings)
"inventimanha" N F P 'tricks'
itamaroxia ALT xxxia (also: V IMPF 1/3S IND VFIN)
"itamaroxia" N F S 'president Itamar + orthodoxy'
(5b) corruptograma ALT xxxograma (3 other NMS-readings removed by local disambiguation)
"corrupt" N M S 'corruption diagram'
araraquarenses ALT xxxenses (3 other ADJ readings removed by local disambiguation)
"araraquar" ADJ M/F P 'from Araraquara'
falocrática ALT xxxtica (1 other AFS-reading removed by local disambiguation)
"falocrá" ADJ F S 'phallocracy, reign of the phallos'
ontogeneticamente ALT xxxticamente
"ontogene" ADV 'by ontogenesis'
(5c) sra ALT xxx (also: N M S)
"sra" N F S '=s.-ra - Mrs.'
dra ALT xxx (also: N M S)
"dra" N F S '=d.-ra - Dr.'
(5d) sombrancelhas ALT xxxas (also: one ADJ and three rare V-readings)
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