Difference between revisions of "IP-INF"

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Tough Movement

see CP-TMC

ECM vs. Object Control

See the PPCME2,PPCEME guidelines on this issue.

Following those guidelines, we parse IP-INF complements of inherent ECM verbs (according to the list in the PPCME2 guidelines) as always having an embedded subject.

When the verb is not an inherent ECM verb, the parse depends on the context. A verb on the non-inherent ECM verb list is parsed as having an embedded subject in its complement iff:

   * when the postverbal noun phrase is an expletive expression (IT, THERE, weather IT, idiom chunk)
   * when the postverbal noun phrase refers to an inanimate (or at least nonhuman) entity
   * when the complement infinitive is a passive verb
   * when the complement infinitive is a copular verb 

So, a verb like "fyrirbjóða" is annotated as having an embedded ECM subject when it takes a copular complement, as in:

( (IP-MAT (CONJ og-og)
	  (VBD FYRIRBAUÐ-FYRIRBJÓÐA)
	  (NP-SBJ (N-N hreppstjóri-hreppstjóri))
	  (IP-INF (NP-SBJ (Q-D nokkrum-nokkur) (N-D manni-maður))
		  (TO að-að)
		  (BE vera-vera)
		  (ADJP (ADVR svo-svo)
			(ADJ djarfur-djarfur)
			(IP-INF-DEG (TO að-að) (VB ljúka-ljúka) (RP upp-upp))))
	  (. .-.)))

IP-INF-DEG

Sister of a degree adverb, as in:

( (IP-MAT (CONJ og-og) (VBD FYRIRBAUÐ-FYRIRBJÓÐA) (NP-SBJ (N-N hreppstjóri-hreppstjóri)) (IP-INF (NP-SBJ (Q-D nokkrum-nokkur) (N-D manni-maður)) (TO að-að) (BE vera-vera) (ADJP (ADVR svo-svo) (ADJ djarfur-djarfur) (IP-INF-DEG (TO að-að) (VB ljúka-ljúka) (RP upp-upp)))) (. .-.)))