<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div><div>I'm reaching the end of this year's Ling 567, and this time around we have</div><div>two languages (Bardi [bcj] and Lithuanian [lit]) that contrast realis and irrealis </div><div>mood, where irrealis is required in negated sentences but also possible </div><div>elsewhere (with other uses).</div><div><br></div><div>We typically use VPM to set defaults for various variable properties to keep</div><div>the range of generator outputs down in our MT set up, but can't in this</div><div>case set MOOD to realis by default, since then we don't get any output</div><div>for negated sentences.</div><div><br></div><div>It seemed tempting to try to create a family of transfer rules that specialize</div><div>MOOD on the ARG0 of negated _v_rels (i.e. whose LBL is the LARG of a qeq</div><div>whose HARG is the ARG1 of neg_rel) to [ MOOD irrealis ] and that of</div><div>_v_rels that aren't negated to [ MOOD realis ]. The trouble is, I can't figure</div><div>out a way to write this rule that doesn't feed itself.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there something I'm missing, or (perhaps more likely) is this just not an</div><div>intended use case for the transfer rules/otherwise a bad idea in some way?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Emily</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Emily M. Bender<br>Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>Check out CLMS on facebook! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/uwclma" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/uwclma</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div>
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