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[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Ok. Any ideas how you would implement this such that the grammar would not
over generate? Have you made any implementations of your scheme?

James Christian

On 20 June 2010 23:53, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

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>
> On 20 Jun 2010 at 21:24, James Christian wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi, on reflection I was wondering what your thoughts about NPs with
> > a direct object marker are.
> > Clearly a generic NP rule would cause over generation as subject NPs
> > with a direct object
> > marker would be generated.
> > James Christian
>
> The markers come in the semantic component.  Syntactically, the status of
> an NP as subject
> or object is decided by the generation of the VP, not the NP.  The NP
> internally is neutral.
>
> Dave Washburn
>
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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