Preliminary Recommendations

Contents

 
• Contributors
  • Authors
  • Editors and assistants
• Introduction
  • Background and objectives
  • Working procedures
  • Summary of report
• Comparing approaches to subcategorisation
  • Subcategorisation from a theoretical perspective
    • Subcategorisation in GB theory
    • Subcategorisation in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG)
      • Lexical Mapping Theory
        • Hierarchy of lexical roles
        • Decomposed syntactic functions
        • Lexical Mapping Principles
        • Well-formedness Conditions
      • Lexical Mapping Theory at work
      • Functional control
    • Subcategorisation in HPSG
      • Argument structure
      • The obliqueness hierarchy
      • Category selection
      • Selection of certain morphosyntactic features: vform, case,...
      • Equi and raising verbs
      • Conclusions
    • Subcategorisation in Categorial Grammar
      • Sign structure
      • Subcategorisation
      • Semantic predicate-argument structures
      • Category structures
      • Verb signs
        • TWO-ARGUMENTS-VERB-SIGN
        • THREE-ARGUMENTS-VERB-SIGN
    • Subcategorisation in Dependency Grammar
    • A comparison
  • Practical NLP lexicons
    • Approaches to verb subcategorisation
    • A comparative overview
      • Number of arguments
      • Argument syntactic category
      • Argument functional role
      • Control and raising phenomena
      • Lexical selection
      • Morphosyntactic constraints
      • Frame alternation and argument optionality
      • Theta structure and deep structure
      • Other properties
    • Summary
  • Syntactically annotated corpora
    • Constraint Grammar
      • Introduction
      • Method of annotation
      • Tokenisation
      • Morphological lookup
      • Resolution of morphological ambiguities
      • Syntactic lookup
      • Resolution of syntactic ambiguities
      • Syntactic tags
      • Example
    • Lancaster/IBM Treebank and the IBM Paris Treebank
      • Introduction
      • Method of annotation
      • Syntactic tags
      • Examples
    • TOSCA annotation scheme
      • Introduction
      • Method of annotation
      • Syntactic tags
      • Examples
    • SUSANNE annotation scheme
      • Introduction
      • Method of annotation
      • Syntactic tags
      • Surface grammar
      • Syntactic function tags
      • Logical grammar
      • Examples
    • UPenn Treebank
      • Annotation in phase I
      • Annotation in phase II
      • Consistency
      • Null elements
      • Discontinous elements
      • Simple extraposition: *ICH*
      • True ambiguity: *PPA*
      • Right node raising: *RNR*
      • Extraposed sentences with `it'
      • Semantic roles/grammatical functions
        • Semantic roles
        • Grammatical Functions
          • -DTV
          • -PRD
          • -TPC
          • -CLF
          • -PRP
      • Gapping
    • Phrase and clause level labels
    • Summary
• Standardising Subcategorisation
  • Introduction to the concept of frame
    • Frames
    • Slots
      • Slot realisations
      • Alternative realisations
        • Objective complements and their different realisations: NP, that-clause, infinitival
        • Predicative complements and their different realisations: AP, PP, NP, VP
      • Optionality
      • Categorial and morphosyntactic information
      • Grammatical relations or functions
      • Semantic class
      • Thematic role
    • Self
    • Control
    • Rel_order
    • Frame set
    • Possible extensions
  • (Morpho)Syntactic features
    • Categorial realisation of a slot
      • Non-terminal categories
        • Justification
        • List of non-terminal categories
      • Terminal categories
        • Justification
          • Verb complementation and other complementation
          • Fine grained subcategorisation
          • Lexical unit specification
        • List of terminal categories
    • Restrictive features on slot realisation
      • Lexicographic needs
      • Morphosyntactic features
        • Features on terminal categories
        • Features on non-terminal categories
      • Lexical features
        • Introducers
        • Terminal elements
      • Syntactic features
        • Passivisable
        • Other subcategorisation
    • Appendix
      • Self restrictions
        • Defective verbs
        • Auxiliary
        • Particles
        • Pronouns
          • Reflexive
          • Reciprocal
          • Pronominal
      • S restrictions
        • that-clause
        • Subordinate interrogative clauses with total or partial questioning
      • VP restrictions
        • Infinitive clause
        • Participial clause
          • ing-form
          • ed-form
      • PP restrictions
        • Strongly bound prepositions
        • Weakly bound prepositions
      • NP restrictions
        • Impersonal subjects
        • Case
        • Passivisable direct objects
  • Grammatical function
    • Phrase structure based approaches
    • GFs as primitives
    • GFs derived from the semantic constituency of predicates
    • Conclusions
  • Relative and independent order
    • Introduction
    • Order of realisations relative to self (the verb)
    • Ordering relation constraints between elements of a frame
    • Expression of linear ordering constraints
  • Diathesis alternation and argument optionality
    • Optionality
    • Frame alternations
    • Conclusions
  • Control
    • The distinction between raising and control verbs
    • How to distinguish different kinds of raising verbs
    • How to distinguish different kinds of control verbs
      • Two types of control
      • Switch of controller
    • Summary
  • Semantic class
  • Thematic Roles
    • Conclusions
      • Recommended specification
      • For future reference
• Formalisation
  • Conceptual representation of the specifications via E-R diagrams
  • SGML DTD for a formal description
    • Partial SGML DTD
• References
• Appendix: Examples