Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew

What it is about

The paper is one part of HUGG, a Hebrew generation grammar built to share an input specification with the English grammar SURGE. It asks which features must be in the input so that a generator can produce complex Hebrew noun phrases, with determiners and quantifiers placed before and after the head. The authors find two properties of Hebrew that SURGE's binary definite feature cannot express: definiteness marking appears on several words of the NP, and the order of determiners is flexible but restricted. They add a three-valued mark-definite feature (yes, no, indefinite), and they sort quantifiers into partitive, amount and determiner classes. Only partitives can recurse, and an explicit "X of Y" construction is forced when the portion is modified. The paper gives no corpus figures; it is a feature analysis with worked examples.

Ideas

• I1. Three-valued definiteness with inheritance: the default is that a sub-constituent takes the definiteness of its mother NP, which lexical items and the construct (smixut) block. Write this as a rule for where the ha- marker appears on each word of an NP in Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals, with the paper's examples as the test cases.
• I2. A finite-state order check for prenominal determiners: partitive, then determiner, then amount, then head, with at most one amount and one identification per NP. Run it on NP chunks taken from the trees in 7. Syntax, and count the violations.
• I3. Lexical flags that forbid an explicit partitive construction for some quantifiers (the paper's col case). Keep them as a feature on the lexical entry in 8. Lexicon and register, not as a rule.

For Mova

I1 goes into Nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals. I2 is a check on 7. Syntax, measured on the Hebrew trees. I3 belongs in 8. Lexicon and register. The paper is about generation; the feature set can also serve as the target of the world's frames for NPs, which is an idea for prag and world, not yet tested.

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.3115/1621753.1621769

@inproceedings{netzer1998generating,
  title = {{Generating Determiners and Quantifiers in Hebrew}},
  author = {Netzer, Yael Dahan and Elhadad, Michael},
  booktitle = {Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages},
  year = {1998},
  doi = {10.3115/1621753.1621769},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3115/1621753.1621769}
}

References

11 references, 0 of them with a card of ours. ↗ leads to the work, «find» searches for one we have no id for yet.

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