morphosyntax query

Mon Apr 24 21:48:46 UTC 2000

At 10:52 PM +0200 4/24/2000, Stefan Mueller wrote:
>Hi,
>
>You have a similar situation with the genitive in German:
>
>die Berater  der    Praesidenten
>the advisors of.the presidents
>
>die Berater  kluger    Praesidenten
>the advisors of.smart  presidents
>
>* die Berater  Praesidenten
>  the advisors presidents
>
>The inflection can be marked by the determiner or adjective, but without
>anything the sentence is not processable.

...

>If you come up with a solution to such problems that is less ad hoc than
>a +/-INFLECTED feature, please let me know.

Stefan,

We do have one but it involves a non-monotonic 'output filter' that checks
to see if each CASE value is the termination of *some* path originating
from an inflected word.  It is described (not necessarily endorsed) in our
paper in the Slavic in HPSG volume.

Steve

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