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Crossroads Semantics: Computation, experiment and grammar
Edited by Hilke Reckman, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Maarten Hijzelendoorn and Rint Sybesma
[Not in series 210] 2017
► pp. 39–56

Chapter 3
Finding long-distance dependencies in the Lassy Corpus

| University of Groningen

In this paper, we present the results of searching for long-distance dependencies in an automatically annotated treebank for Dutch. We concentrate on phenomena that have recently been subject to debate, and where conflicting claims have been made regarding the question whether these constructions actually occur with some frequency in spontaneous language use. Long-distance dependencies involving a tensed or infinitival subordinate clause are quite rare and show collocational effects. Resumptive prolepsis and R-pronominal parasitic gaps are outside the scope of the computational grammar. We show that access to syntactic annotation even in such cases helps to find positive examples relatively quickly.

Keywords: long-distance dependencies, corpora, Dutch, resumptive prolepsis, parasitic gaps
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
  • 3.Non-local dependencies in the Lassy Corpus
  • 4.Long-distance dependencies
  • 5.Long distance dependencies with non-finite clauses
  • 6.Resumptive prolepsis
  • 7.R-pronominal parasitic gaps
  • 8.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 12 April 2017
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