[Attempto] APE bug?

Kaarel Kaljurand kaljurand at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 15:41:29 CEST 2011


Hi,

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:57, Kaarel Kaljurand <kaljurand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But in order to get rid of NP-conjunction (because it behaves
> confusingly in the context of 'of') but still be able to express
> ordered items you could use lists ([..]) or the concatenation operator
> & (which seems appropriate for your sentence anyway).

small correction: using NP-conjunction for ordered items (such as the
elements of a concatenation) is incorrect anyway because on the
DRS-level, the surface order of the NP-conjunction elements is lost.
For example, the paraphraser (which essentially verbalizes the DRS) is
allowed to paraphrase

(1) There are a man and a dog.

as

(2) There are a dog and a man.

--
kaarel


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