ErgSemantics_ForeignExpressions

ESD Test Suite Examples

Abrams said, “Kiun libron vi volas?” ;; unverified.  Need italics?

Linguistic Characterization

Naturally occurring English text will sometimes include strings of foreign words. These can be relatively recent borrowings that haven't been fully assimilated into English or quotes as in the testsuite example. In standard orthography, italics are used to represent the fact that the string is not English (and not intended to be read as such). The ERG does not attempt to assign any linguistically motivated syntactic or semantic internal structure to foreign word sequences. Rather, they are represented with a subgraph which can then integrated into the larger MRS structure.

Motivating Examples

• Would be nice to give some examples of different ways that they fit in.

MRS Fingerprints

Interactions

Reflections

Open Questions

• What does the ERG do with words like ad hoc that it does recognize when they appear in italics?

Grammar Version

• Note the grammar version (trunk + svn revision) consulted as this was written or updated.

More Information

• ErgSemantics main page

• Inventory of semantic phenomena (to be) documented

• How to cite this work