Eckhard Bick - VISL

SPEC "specifiers": independent pronouns
indefinite pronouns (non-adjectival quantifiers)
tudo SPEC M' S'
isto SPEC M' S'
ninguém SPEC M' S'
non-adjectival relatives and interrogatives
quem SPEC M/F S/F
a=qual SPEC F S
que SPEC M/F S/P
WORD FORM and
LEXEME CATEGORIES
gender
M' absolute male
("neuter", "uter")
number
S' absolute singular
relatives/interrogatives also:
gender:
M male, F female, M/F
number:
S singular, P plural, S/P
(both categories more
"anaphorical" than morphol.)
SYNTACTIC SUB-CLASSES
(secondary tags)
saturated NP
demonstratives
non-inflecting quantifier
enumeratives
+HUM
enumerative
relatives
interrogatives
+HUM relatives
+HUM
interrogatives
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TEXT EXAMPLES
tudo acabou..
aquilo, isto
tudo, nada,um=pouco cada=um
cada=qual
alguém, ninguém
a janela que quebrei
o=qual, os=quais
quem foram os outros?
Traditionally, 'o=que' is regarded as a (pronoun) unit, and as such should be included
in the SPEC list. However, due to the ambiguity between synthetic reading ('o=que')
and analytical reading ('o que'), this is problematic in a word based grammar like CG,
and individual word class tagging is chosen in the parser’s CG proper, i.e. on the
disambiguation stage, with 'o' functioning as modifier in the synthetic, and as head in
the analytical case. Compare:
O @>N que quer? - Um bolo. (synthethical)
[What would you like? - a cake.]
Não quero este, quero o @N tag.
DET determiners, articles, attributive quantifiers