@inproceedings{gasser-amlesom-kifle-2025-ud,
    title = "{UD} Annotation of Experience Clauses in {T}igrinya",
    author = "Gasser, Michael  and
      Amlesom Kifle, Nazareth",
    editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva  and
      Kahane, Sylvain",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/mtsummit-25-ingestion/2025.depling-1.12/",
    pages = "120--129",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-290-9",
    abstract = "We are developing a treebank for Tigrinya within the Universal Dependency (UD) framework. UD proposes a set of universal grammatical relations to capture dependency relations between words in any language. However, for some classes of verbs it is not a straightforward matter to know what grammatical relations the verbs are categorized for. In this paper we discuss the decisions we have had to make for the annotation of arguments of experience verbs in the Semitic language Tigrinya, which exhibit a number of unusual morphosyntactic properties. We describe a classification of experience verb roots in the language, based on the various ways in which the core experiencer and stimulus arguments are realized syntactically and morphologically and on which valence-changing operations the roots permit. We supplement our analysis with data from a morphological analysis of a Tigrinya corpus."
}