Modeling Clausal Complementation for a Grammar Engineering Resource
Olga Zamaraeva, Kristen Howell, Emily M. Bender · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2019
We present a grammar engineering library for modeling objectival declarative clausal complementation patterns attested cross-linguistically. Our primary contribution is positing a set of syntactico-semantic analyses couched within a variant of the HPSG syntactic formalism and integrating them with a variety of phenomena already implemented in a grammar engineering toolkit. We evaluate the addition to the system on testsuites from genetically diverse languages that were not considered during development.