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Parsing Modern Greek verb MWEs with LFG/XLE grammars

“…MG MWEs are rich in syntactic structure despite any simplifications that might result from the usage of WWSs. In agreement with Gross (1998a;1998b) and Mini et al (2011) who argue that MWEs and compositional structures can be treated with more or less the same grammar, we have so far manipulated only the lexicon but not the grammar rules. Identification of phrasal constituents within the MWEs relies on possible permutations and the ability of XPs to intervene between two words, thus indicating the border between two constituents.…”

“…Research on MG MWEs (indicatively, Anastasiadi-Simeonidi, 1986; Fotopoulou, 1993;Mini et al, 2011) has developed collections of MWEs and discussed classification, syntax and semantics issues. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to obtain deep parses of a wide range of types of MG verb MWEs with rich syntactic structure.…”

“…The output is then formatted to feed an LFG/XLE grammar that has been developed independently. So far we have identified and classified about 2500 MWEs, and have processed 40% of them by manipulating only the lexicon and not the rules of the grammar.Research on MG MWEs (indicatively, Anastasiadi-Simeonidi, 1986; Fotopoulou, 1993;Mini et al, 2011) has developed collections of MWEs and discussed classification, syntax and semantics issues. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to obtain deep parses of a wide range of types of MG verb MWEs with rich syntactic structure.…”