Dependency annotation of noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages

Francis Tyers, Karina Mishchenkova


Abstract
This paper describes an approach to annotating noun incorporation in Universal Dependencies. It motivates the need to annotate this particular morphosyntactic phenomenon and justifies it with respect to frequency of the construction. A case study is presented in which the proposed annotation scheme is applied to Chukchi, a language that exhibits noun incorporation. We compare argument encoding in Chukchi, English and Russian and find that while in English and Russian discourse elements are primarily tracked through noun phrases and pronouns, in Chukchi they are tracked through agreement marking and incorporation, with a lesser role for noun phrases.
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2020.udw-1.22
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2020.udw-1.22v1
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020)
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December
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2020
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Barcelona, Spain (Online)
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Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Miryam de Lhoneux, Joakim Nivre, Sebastian Schuster
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UDW
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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195–204
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Francis Tyers and Karina Mishchenkova. 2020. Dependency annotation of noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020), pages 195–204, Barcelona, Spain (Online). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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