Eckhard Bick - VISL

graph. def. characteristics:
hyphenation
none
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anti-, vice-
The EC class honours the fact that some prefixes occur not fused, but hyphenated in
front of their root, thus providing them with a certain "wordiness". Since the
phenomenon is productive, and therefore evades lexicalisation, the preprocessor will
prefer to pass such words - like other hyphenated words - on to the tagger in bits and
pieces for separate analysis of the hyphen-isolated word-parts. None of the parts in
isolation, however, will be recognized by the tagger's prefix module, since it is
looking for fused prefixes. This is why a full word analysis (EC) is easiest to handle
at that level. Of course, in the vein of progressive level parsing, one can reattach
such prefixes before the syntactic stage, by means of an "inter-processor" (as is done
in the 1999 version of the parser).
V... verb-incorporates 59
VNP nouns, adjectives, nouns phrases
VPP prepositional group
VADV adverbs, adberbial group
VFS finite subclause
VKS subordinating conjunction
(chorar) baldes VNP 'weep extensively'
(ser) batata VNP 'to be o.k.'
(ter) cabelo=na=venta VNP_PP 'to be a bitch'
(voar) baixinho VADV 'to keep a low profile'
(crescer) como=cogumelo VADV 'grow fast'
(sair) da=linha VPP 'go too far'
(saber) onde=tem=as=ventas VFS 'be competent'
(fazer) com=que VKS 'to pretend'
WORDFORM and
LEXEME CATEGORIES
SYNTACTIC SUB-CLASSES
(secondary tags)
TEXT EXAMPLES
59 Though not a morphologically definable class, one can design syntactico-semantic tests for incorporation
constructions, like substitution by a simplex verb and co-ordination restrictions for incorporates. However, in practice,
the V... class is assigned for reasons of easy syntactic management (in fact, here the preprocessor can do the work of
higher parsing levels) and translation quality. Lexicon implementation, though extensive, is still somewhat patchy and
inconsistent. For a detailed discussion of incorporating constructions, see chapter 5.3.1).