A Minimalist Implementation Of Verb Subcategorization (2001) [3 citations — 0 self]
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author = {Sourabh Niyogi},
title = {A Minimalist Implementation Of Verb Subcategorization},
booktitle = {IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES (IWPT-2001},
year = {2001},
pages = {2001},
publisher = {MIT Manuscript}
}
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Abstract:
Traditional accounts of verb subcategorization, from the classic work of Fillmore on, require either a considerable number of syntactic rules to account for diverse sentence constructions, including crosslanguage variation, or else complex linking rules mapping the thematic roles of semantic event templates with possible syntactic forms. In this paper we exhibit a third approach: we implement, via an explicit parser and lexicon, the incorporation theory of Hale and Keyser (1993, 1998) to systematically cover most patterns in English Verb Classes and Alternations (Levin 1993), typically using only 1 or 2 lexical entries per verb to subsume a large number of syntactic constructions and also most information typically contained in semantic event templates, and, further, replacing the notion of "thematic roles" with precise structural configurations. The implemented parser uses the merge and move operations formalized by Stabler (1997) in the minimalist framework of Chomsky (2001). As a side benefit, we extend the minimalist recognizer of Harkema (2000) to a full parsing implementation. We summarize the current compactness and coverage of our account and provide this minimalist lexicon and parser online at http://web.mit.edu/niyogi/www/minimal.htm
