<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you matrix community for such a scope to provide online suggestions. As I am
working with Bangla language and have an aim to build a HPSG-based treebank on
it, so far I have been able to build a basic foundation, at which syntactical
structures of simple Bangla sentences can be successfully included using LKB
treebanking tool. Thanks especially to Emily Bender, without her unwavering
help and suggestions, it would never be possible for me to have a good start
while don't have any little background on computational linguistics. Now I am
trying for further syntactical and morphological analysis to extend the range
to include maximum number of acceptable Bangla sentences. <br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, in case of possessive marker, non-configurational
Bangla language has different interpretation of a sentence when the word order
is changed. For example: nafider boi</p><p class="MsoNormal"> "Nafid's book"<span style=""></span><span style=""></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"> (Nafid's book)
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">but,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""></span>boi nafider</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""></span>"book Nafid's"</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""></span>(Book is own by Nafid)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The word 'nafider' can have different syntactical category.
First one can be a determiner, and second one is a possessive proper noun.
Since, possessives are treated as determiner and build Determiner Phrases (DP),
do I need to have two different lexical rules, such as one for determiner and
other one is for possessive noun, while there is a single inflection (nafid+er
= nafider)? And do I have to implement the rules "head-change-only"
to make a noun to be a determiner after been inflected by possessive marker
'er'? Because 'nafid' is a proper noun and 'nafid+er' will be a determiner and
would be head of this DP.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bangla also has possessive marker 'er'. It is sometimes
used explicitly without morphologically inflect nominal types but doesn't change the semantic category ("nafider boi" and "nafid er boi" have the same semantic interpretation). Should it be considered as possessive marker
<span style=""> </span>'s<span style=""> </span>in
English and the head of the DP?<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks a lot!</p><br><br>-Altaf