made articles and mass syntactic in exper

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aarne
2008-04-22 12:34:45 +00:00
parent 30f221cbb4
commit 09a82c8abb
6 changed files with 55 additions and 42 deletions

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@@ -24,10 +24,15 @@ fun
OrdInt : Int -> Ord ; -- 51st (DEPRECATED)
-- 20/4
DetSg : Art -> Ord -> Det ; -- the best man
DetPl : Art -> Num -> Ord -> Det ; -- the five best men
DetSg : Quant -> Ord -> Det ; -- the best man
DetPl : Quant -> Num -> Ord -> Det ; -- the five best men
NoNum : Num ;
-- 22/4
DefArt : Quant ; -- the (house), the (houses)
IndefArt : Quant ; -- a (house), (houses)
MassDet : Quant ; -- (beer)
-- from Structural 19/4/2008
that_NP : NP ;

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@@ -80,7 +80,6 @@ abstract Cat = Common ** {
Det ; -- determiner phrase e.g. "those seven"
Predet ; -- predeterminer (prefixed Quant) e.g. "all"
Quant ; -- quantifier ('nucleus' of Det) e.g. "this/these"
Art ; -- article (non-independent Quant) e.g. "the"
Num ; -- cardinal number (used with QuantPl) e.g. "seven"
Ord ; -- ordinal number (used in Det) e.g. "seventh"

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@@ -36,28 +36,25 @@ abstract Noun = Cat ** {
-- (This is modified from CLE by further dividing their $Num$ into
-- cardinal and ordinal.)
DetArt : Art -> Num -> Ord -> Det ; -- the five best men
DetQuant : Quant -> Num -> Ord -> Det ; -- the five best men
-- Notice that $DetPl$ can still result in a singular determiner, because
-- "one" is a numeral: "this one man".
-- Quantifiers can form noun phrases directly.
DetQuant : Quant -> Num -> Ord -> NP ; -- these five
-- Quantifiers can also be used in the same way as articles.
ArtQuant : Quant -> Art ;
DetNP : Quant -> Num -> Ord -> NP ; -- these five
-- Pronouns have possessive forms. Genitives of other kinds
-- of noun phrases are not given here, since they are not possible
-- in e.g. Romance languages. They can be found in
-- [``Extra`` ../abstract/Extra.gf].
PossPron : Pron -> Art ; -- my (house)
PossPron : Pron -> Quant ; -- my (house)
-- All parts of the determiner can be empty, except $Quant$, which is
-- the "kernel" of a determiner.
-- the "kernel" of a determiner. It is, however, the $Num$ that determines
-- the inherent numbers.
NumSg : Num ;
NumPl : Num ;
@@ -90,18 +87,18 @@ abstract Noun = Cat ** {
OrdNumeralNP : Numeral -> NP ; -- the fiftieth
NumNumeralNP : Numeral -> NP ; -- fifty
-- Definite and indefinite constructions are sometimes realized as
-- Definite and indefinite noun phrases are sometimes realized as
-- neatly distinct words (Spanish "un, unos ; el, los") but also without
-- any particular word (Finnish; Swedish definites).
DefArt : Art ; -- the (house), the (houses)
IndefArt : Art ; -- a (house), (houses)
DefNP : Num -> Ord -> CN -> NP ; -- the (house), the (houses)
IndefNP : Num -> Ord -> CN -> NP ; -- a (house), (houses)
-- Nouns can be used without an article as mass nouns. The resource does
-- not distinguish mass nouns from other common nouns, which can result
-- in semantically odd expressions.
MassDet : Art ; -- (beer)
MassNP : CN -> NP ; -- (beer)
-- Other determiners are defined in [Structural Structural.html].