Open AccessNominalized clauses in the Grammar Matrix
Author(s) -
Kristen Howell,
Olga Zamaraeva,
Emily M. Bender
Publication year - 2018
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.2018.5
Subject(s) - nominalization , linguistics , computer science , grammar , context (archaeology) , dependent clause , variation (astronomy) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , noun , history , philosophy , sentence , physics , archaeology , astrophysics
We present an analysis of clausal nominalization developed in the context of the LinGO Grammar Matrix (Bender et al., 2002, 2010) to support the addition of subordinate clauses to the grammar customization framework. In particular, we examine the typological variation of nominalized clausal complements and nominalized clausal modifiers. To account for the range of variation in nominalized clauses across the world's languages and to support linguists in exploring alternative analyses, we propose a flexible library of analyses, allowing nominalization of the clause to occur at the V, VP or S level.