Abstract
We conduct a morphosyntactic investigation into the light verb constructions (LVCs) or the verbo-nominal predicates in South Asian languages. This work spans the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language families in treebanks based on Universal Dependencies (UD). For the selected languages we show how well the existing annotation guidelines fare for the LVCs. We also reiterate the importance of the core and oblique distinction in UD and how informative it is for making accurate morphosyntactic annotation judgments for such predicates.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.mwe-1.21
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, A. Seza Doğruöz, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre, Alexandre Rademaker
- Venues:
- MWE | UDW | WS
- SIGs:
- SIGLEX | SIGPARSE
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 163–177
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.mwe-1.21
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Abishek Stephen and Daniel Zeman. 2024. Light Verb Constructions in Universal Dependencies for South Asian Languages. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD) @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 163–177, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Light Verb Constructions in Universal Dependencies for South Asian Languages (Stephen & Zeman, MWE-UDW-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/2024.mwe-1.21.pdf