Coordination, incorporation and dynamic semantic representation in transfer
Kurt Eberle · 2003
Factorized coordinated predicative structures prove to be a problem to transfer whenever the bilingual lexicon suggests a non-isomorphic translation for one of the predicative conjuncts, in particular a solution that requires incorporation of the predicative description into the translation of the source (support) verb. The problem disappears if the factorized structure is ’multiplied out’, resulting in a structure where the coordination is raised to VP. Since many languages make use of such factorized coordinations and since, normally, one can translate them into each other, ’multiplying out ’ is unnecessary in most of the cases and costly. We suggest a semantics based transfer architecture in this paper which, per default, avoids unfolding the factorized representation and makes it dependent on constraints formulated in the bilingual lexicon whether corresponding structural revision is needed. If so, triggered by such constraints, it is computed on the fly during transfer.