@inproceedings{croft-nivre-2025-verbal,
    title = "Verbal Predication Constructions in {U}niversal {D}ependencies",
    author = "Croft, William  and
      Nivre, Joakim",
    editor = "Bonial, Claire  and
      Torgbi, Melissa  and
      Weissweiler, Leonie  and
      Blodgett, Austin  and
      Beuls, Katrien  and
      Van Eecke, Paul  and
      Tayyar Madabushi, Harish",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = {D{\"u}sseldorf, Germany},
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.cxgsnlp-1.6/",
    pages = "50--60",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-318-0",
    abstract = "Is the framework of Universal Dependencies (UD) compatible with findings from linguistic typology about constructions in the world{'}s languages? To address this question, we need to systematically review how UD represents these constructions, and how it handles the range of morphosyntactic variation attested across languages. In this paper, we present the results of such a review focusing on verbal predication constructions. We find that, although UD can represent all major constructions in this area, the guidelines are not completely coherent with respect to the criteria for core argument relations and not completely systematic in the definition of subtypes for nonbasic voice constructions. To improve the overall coherence of the guidelines, we propose a number of revisions for future versions of UD."
}