The Amazon grammar and the last part of the Middle Field in Dutch


In this lecture I would like to focus on the description of the end
of the Middle Field in the Amazon grammar.

 
The Amazon grammar is a structuralistic parser for the Dutch language.
Within structuralistic grammar, the Middle Field is defined as
the sentence part between the finite verb in main clauses
and the verbal end cluster. The last part of the Middle Field
has recently been subject of linguistic research. It seems to be
strongly related to the verbal cluster.

 
I will give a brief survey of the Amazon grammar, and elaborate on a
further formalization of the final part of the Middle Field.
I will show that this formalization solves some ambiguity problems
in the description of transparent nonfinite clauses.

 

 Simon van Dreumel  


              University of Nijmegen 

         Dept. Language & Speech 

        Computational Linguistics 

               P.O. Box 9103 

          NL-6500 HD  Nijmegen 

E-mail: dreumel@let.kun.nl