Open AccessCooperating constructions in Lai "lexical insertion"
Author(s) -
Andreas Kathol
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2003.12
Subject(s) - alternation (linguistics) , head driven phrase structure grammar , hierarchy , computer science , construction grammar , function (biology) , linguistics , mathematics , natural language processing , arithmetic , artificial intelligence , generative grammar , market economy , philosophy , evolutionary biology , economics , biology
In this paper we investigate the factors conditioning a morphologicalalternation on verbal heads in Lai. We show that this alternationeludes a simple characterization and instead exhibits a many-to-manyform-function mapping. We will further show that the facts can begiven a straightforward analysis in terms of default conditions basedon valence and polarity, together with various constructionaloverrides. Our analysis thus follows recent proposals in HPSG, inparticular Malouf (forthcoming), in using a constructional typehierarchy with defaults (cooperating constructions) as analternative to an Optimality Theoretic system of ranked violableconstraints.