Open AccessHow many conversions from verb to noun are there in French?
Author(s) -
Delphine Tribout
Publication year - 2010
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.2010.19
Subject(s) - verb , noun , linguistics , nominative case , formalism (music) , computer science , gerund , verb phrase ellipsis , mathematics , natural language processing , noun phrase , artificial intelligence , philosophy , art , musical , visual arts
In this paper, I discuss verb to noun conversion in French. The properties ofthe input verb and the output noun are presented and a formal representation isproposed using the SBCG framework. The use of such a formalism based onconstraints and multiple inheritance highlights the difficulties in definingwhat exactly is a conversion rule. I propose that the different properties ofthe input verb and the output noun can be thought of as different dimensions ofclassification, which characterize the verb to noun conversion rule.