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| Title | Enriching a Treebank to Investigate Relative Clause Extraposition in German |
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| Authors | Jan Strunk |
| Abstract | I describe the construction of a corpus for research on relative clauseextraposition in German based on the treebank TüBa-D/Z. I also define anannotation scheme for the relations between relative clauses and theirantecedents which is added as a second annotation level to the syntactic trees.This additional annotation level allows for a direct representation of therelevant parts of the relative construction and also serves as a locus for theannotation of additional features which are partly automatically derived fromthe underlying treebank and partly added manually. Finally, I also report onthe results of two pilot studies using this enriched treebank. The first studytestsclaims made in the theoretical literature on relative clause extraposition withregard to syntactic locality, definiteness, and restrictiveness. It shows thatalthough the theoretical claims often go in the right direction, they go toofar by positing categorical constraints that are not supported by the corpusdata and thus underestimate the complexity of the data. The second pilot studygoes one step in the direction of taking this complexity into account bydemonstrating the potential of the enriched treebank for building amultivariate model of relativeclause extraposition as a syntactic alternation. |
| Language | Anaphora, Coreference |
| Topics | Corpus (creation, annotation, etc.), Grammar and Syntax, Anaphora, Coreference |
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Enriching a Treebank to Investigate Relative Clause Extraposition in German |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{STRUNK10.917, author = {Jan Strunk}, title = {Enriching a Treebank to Investigate Relative Clause Extraposition in German}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |