Talk:Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål

Notes on bokmål NP structure

Possible phrases to put in an NP slot (based on Dyvik 2000, p.11--13)) with Apertium tags:

• året<n>
• et<det><ind> år<n>
• mange<adj> år<n>
• de<det> mange<adj> årene<n>
• alle<det><qnt> de<det><def> mange<adj> årene<n> dine<det><pos>
  • all the many years yours
• alle<det><qnt> disse<det><def> dine<det><pos> seksti<num> år<n> som<cnjsub> gikk<vblex>
  • all these your sixty years which went
• alle<det><qnt> som<cnjsub> gikk<vblex>
• mange<adj>
• mange<adj> raske<adj>
• *raske<adj>
  • (That is, we can't say "Gi meg raske." (Give me quick (ones).) but we can say "Gi meg noen raske." (Give me some quick (ones).).)

Dyvik's analysis (based on Vangsnes 1999) looks more or less like:

NOM = { Prop | PRON | AllQP | DP | PossP | QuantP | NP } 

AllQP    →  allq ({ DP  | PossP | QuantP | NP }) 
DP       →         det ({ PossP | QuantP | NP }) 
PossP    → { Poss |  NOM<gen> } ({ QuantP | NP }) 
QuantP   →    { QP | num | art }    qnt    (NP)
NP       →                            AP*   n   (poss)  (CP)

(This is flattened a lot and disregards f-structure.) Assuming AP gives adj, we get:

[AllQP alle<allq> [DP disse<det> [PossP dine<poss> [QuantP mange<qnt> [NP gode<adj> år<n> [CP som gikk] ] ] ] ] ]

[AllQP [QuantP mange<qnt> ] ] 

and so on, but this doesn't allow "Gi meg mange raske (*som gikk)" or "Gi meg alle de raske (som gikk)", so the NP needs to be more lax on the presence of n.

TODO

I've put my private TODO list and general notes file (extremely messy) up at http://www.student.uib.no/~kun041/doc/apertium.html (though I doubt it's helpful for anyone but me...) Unhammer 07:42, 8 June 2009 (UTC)