[matrix] need a clarification

[Emily M. Bender]

Dear Altaf,

It seems that the course lab directions  are somewhat out of
sync with the current version of the Matrix.  My apologies
for that.  The grammar you downloaded from the customization
site probably already has the word order constraints in place.

As for CASE v. FORM, the CASE analysis would be cleaner if 
case is sometimes marked with adopositions and sometimes 
morphologically.  Beyond that, there isn't much to decide between
them.

Emily

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:39:11PM +0600, Altaf Mahmud wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I need a further clarification of a point of "Case --- case marking
> adpositions" section at Lab-05:
> 
> "If your language has free word order but the adpositions can only occur on
> one side of the noun  (i.e., they're strictly prepositions or
> postpositions), you'll need to constrain one of your  head-complement rules
> to exclude adpositions as head daugthers. You can do this by constraining
> the HEAD value of the HEAD-DTR of the head-comp rule that does not allow
> adpositions to be +nvjrcdmo."
> 
> I didn't understand that how this constraint on HEAD value can restricts the
> postpositions to be occured after noun? I couldn't find
> the solution too. Although LKB has an alternative solution for negation, but
> I failed to solve this. Can anyone please help me out for the solution? Any
> hints?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Altaf