Difference between revisions of "NP-PRN"

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Appositive (ísl. viðurlag), as in Fagridalur [hinn eystri] 'Fagridalur the more.eastern', Bjarni bæjarstjóri 'Bjarni mayor', Henry [the king], John [the great], etc.

(NP-SBJ (NPR-N Bjarni-Bjarni)
        (NP-PRN (N-N bæjarstjóri-bæjarstjóri)))

If the title, here bæjarstjóri 'mayor', comes before the name, it doesn't project a phrase (cf. king Henry, doctor Livingstone).

(NP-SBJ (NPR-N bæjarstjóri-bæjarstjóri) (NPR-N Bjarni-Bjarni))

In cases where there is a word that is ambiguous between a demonstrative and a personal pronoun, followed by a noun and a suffixed determiner, our convention is to parse/tag this construction as a personal pronoun with an NP-PRN sister, consisting of the N and D.

( (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ (Q-XMSN Enginn-enginn) (N-MSNIC nábúakrytur-nábúakrytur))
	  (BED-IA3SD var-vera)
	  (ADVP (ADV þó-þó))
	  (PP (P-D með-með)
	      (NP (PRO-DMPD þeim-sá)
		  (NP-PRN (NS-MPDDC bændu$-bændur) (D $num-hinn))))
	  (. ;-;)))

Note that if a second determiner *follows* the N and D, even if this determiner is ambiguous in form between a personal pronoun and a demonstrative, we do not add the extra NP-PRN layer of structure.

More examples of this sort, i.e. a pronoun followed by a noun: við Jón 'we John', that is 'John and I'; þið strákarnir 'you the boys', that is 'you and the boys / the boys including you'.

(NP (PRO-N við-ég)

   (NPR-N Jón-jón))