Adjuncts and the processing of lexical rules
Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma · 1994
The standard HPSG analysis of germanic verb clusters can not explain the observed narrowscope readings of adjuncts in such verb clusters.We present an extension of the HPSG analysis that accounts for the systematic ambiguity of the scope of adjuncts in verb cluster constructions, by treating adjuncts as members of the subcat list. The extension uses powerful recursive lexical rules, implemented as complex constraints. We show how 'delayed evaluation' techiniques from constraint-logic programming can be used to process such lexical rules.