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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">I am a research scholar, working on Agreement and Coordination in Hindi. I have looked at some interesting agreement patterns and I am trying to impement them using LKB. I am struggling to get the facts implemented and going through a difficult stage in my research. I look forward to your expertise in the field and would be really grateful if you provide some support and directions. I understand that my mail would require some of your precious time however, I will be really indebted to you if you could help me as you all are experts in the field and I'm sure your guidance will get me through my work. </font></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">First, I would like to summarise the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">coordination facts</i></b> in Hindi below : </font></font></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Hindi Coordinate noun phrases differ in their agreement strategies between the predicate and its argument depending on the nature of the conjunct head noun i.e. animate/inanimate </font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">With regard to agreement between a predicate and coordinate noun phrase, although Hindi exhibits the widely attested “resolution agreement strategy”, it also uses a less familiar “Closest Conjunct Agreement (CCA)”. There are basically three different agreement patterns listed below:</font></p>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Also, agreement between a pronominal adjective and a Coordinate noun phrase is always CCA for both number and gender.</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I have attached a file containing some data for reference</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Next, I propose the following analyses</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">HPSG based analyses (to be implemented in LKB) </font></div>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">ANALYSIS I </font></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">This analysis is a modification of the one proposed in </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Villavicencio, Aline, Louisa Sadler, and Doug Arnold. 2005. An HPSG Account of Closest Conjunct Agreement in NP Coordination in Portuguese. In Stefan M¨uller (ed.), Proceedings of the HPSG05 Conference,Stanford, CA. CSLI Publications: <a href="http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications">http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications</a>.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">This analysis involves the introduction of new features LAGR and RAGR which contain agreement information about the left and right conjunct. So, all lexical nouns, adjectives and determiners have the feature LAGR and RAGR in addition to CONCORD. Also, in a non coordinate structure LAGR, RAGR and CONCORD will have the same value. The values of LAGR and RAGR will travel up to the mother i.e. coordinate NP, and the CONCORD will be structure shared with RAGR in case of CCA and it gets a default masc pl in case of resolved agreement. Also, when both LAGR and RAGR are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">fempl (feminine plural) </i>at noun level, the NP has a CONCORD <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">fempl</i>. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I propose to implement the same with following steps:</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Steps: </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">1. First, we propose to introduce two subtypes of nominal-coordinate-phrase (which is itself a subtype of coordinate phrase): one for animate coordinate phrases i.e. animate-n-coord-ph<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and one for nonanimate coordinate phrases i.e. nonanimate-n-coord-ph . As resolved gender agreement is seen only in the case of animate coordinate phrases, we introduce two subtypes of animate-n-coord-ph i.e. animate-n-coord-ph-m for phrases that resolve to masculine and animate-n-coord-ph-f that resolve to feminine. </font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The above subtypes will satisfy the constraint that </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">a coordinate structure is feminine if all the conjuncts are feminine and it is masculine, if a single conjunct is masculine.</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">2. Then, we introduce the features LAGR and RAGR, which store agreement information about the leftmost and rightmost conjuncts. LAGR contains information about the leftmost conjunct and RAGR contains information about the rightmost conjunct. The feature CONCORD is used to contain resolved agreement information.</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">So, any lexical noun, adjective or determiner will have these head features and their values will be passed up. </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">We will mention both NUM and GEND values for LAGR, RAGR and CONCORD as the rules need to look into the actual values </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">3. We will have to constrain NUM value of the CONCORD to be plural for animate-n-coord-ph </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">4. We need to constrain the rules in such a manner, that if any of the conjuncts has GEND masculine, the CONCORD| GENDER for the coordinate phrase is masculine and if both the conjuncts are GEND fem, the CONCORD value for Coordinate phrase is CONCORD|GEND feminine. </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">5. For animate nouns, we will have to define both NUM and GEND values for LAGR, RAGR and CONCORD. Then a rule needs to be written will require the CONCORD|NUM and CONCORD| GEND for the coordinate phrase to be the same as (shared with) RAGR| NUM and RAGR| GEND. </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">6. For agreement between adjectives and nouns, I suppose CONCORD|NUM and CONCORD| GEND will be shared with the values of RAGR.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">This analysis is focused more on implementing using the LKB system </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The Steps to be followed are:</font></p>
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<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I will create a new HEAD feature FORM with its values as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">animate</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">inanimate.</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This feature will be defined for nouns. </font></li>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">It basically states that the AGR (Agreement) value of the coordinate NP is token identical with that of the right conjunct </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">NP [ AGR <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>#agr1 ] ------</font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">à</span></span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[AGR<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span># agr1 ]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N [<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AGR<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>agr2]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">(Coordinate np)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(Left conjunct)<span style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </span>(Right conjunct) </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The feature AGR gives the NUM(BER) and GEN(DER) information. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The constraint states that when two (inanimate nouns) are combined; the AGR value of the NP comes from the right conjunct. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">RULE 2: </b>NP coordination rule for animate nouns -1 </font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">It basically states that if either of the conjuncts is GENDER masculine, the coordinate NP gets the AGR [masc plural]. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">NP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AGR<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NUM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>pl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N [AGR[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>masc] ]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>&<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N[AGR<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>agr]</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>masc]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">à</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">NP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AGR<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NUM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>pl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N [AGR[<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>agr] ]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>&<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N[AGR[GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>masc]</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>masc]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">à</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">So, if either of the conjuncts is masculine, the NP is by default masculine plural. NUM can be left unspecified for the conjunct nouns. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">RULE 3: </b>NP coordination rule for animate nouns -2</font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">It basically states that if both the conjuncts are GENDER feminine, the coordinate NP gets the AGR [feminine plural]. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">NP<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>[ AGR [<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NUM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>pl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>N [AGR[GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>fem] ] <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>& N[AGR[GEND fem<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>]</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>GEND<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>fem]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">à</span></span><font face="Times New Roman"> </font></font></p>
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<li style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Also, the rules will have to be constrained so that they combine only nouns with the following <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>features :</font></li>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">SYNSEM. LOCAL. CAT. HEAD [ FORM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>animate] </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Or </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">SYNSEM. LOCAL. CAT. HEAD [ FORM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>inanimate] </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">So far we have not looked at a combination of animate and inanimate nouns. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">My Questions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">1) In order to implement the first analysis I would have to define LAGR, RAGR and CONCORD as subtypes of INDEX, or then specify NUM and GEND features on all of them. Later changes need to be made to the rules. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">I’m afraid this would lead to redundancy and also, does the customization page (the system) allow us to create subtypes of INDEX. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The second analysis requires constraining the rules as stated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When writing phrasal rules, can we write values instead of just sharing of the values because our data needs the rules to look into the NUM and GEND value and not just structure sharing. How do I constrain animacy/nonanimacy in the NP coordination rule?</font></p>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Please share your knowlege and expertise in the field and suggest me with some directions and/or solutions to the above problems. </font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Your help is greatly appreciated </font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Thank you in advance </font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Nidhi </font></div>