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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Verbal Predication Constructions in Universal Dependencies
%A Croft, William
%A Nivre, Joakim
%Y Bonial, Claire
%Y Torgbi, Melissa
%Y Weissweiler, Leonie
%Y Blodgett, Austin
%Y Beuls, Katrien
%Y Van Eecke, Paul
%Y Tayyar Madabushi, Harish
%S Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP
%D 2025
%8 September
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Düsseldorf, Germany
%@ 979-8-89176-318-0
%F croft-nivre-2025-verbal
%X Is the framework of Universal Dependencies (UD) compatible with findings from linguistic typology about constructions in the world’s languages? To address this question, we need to systematically review how UD represents these constructions, and how it handles the range of morphosyntactic variation attested across languages. In this paper, we present the results of such a review focusing on verbal predication constructions. We find that, although UD can represent all major constructions in this area, the guidelines are not completely coherent with respect to the criteria for core argument relations and not completely systematic in the definition of subtypes for nonbasic voice constructions. To improve the overall coherence of the guidelines, we propose a number of revisions for future versions of UD.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.cxgsnlp-1.6/
%P 50-60

Markdown (Informal)

[Verbal Predication Constructions in Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2025.cxgsnlp-1.6/) (Croft & Nivre, CxGsNLP 2025)

• Verbal Predication Constructions in Universal Dependencies (Croft & Nivre, CxGsNLP 2025)

ACL

• William Croft and Joakim Nivre. 2025. Verbal Predication Constructions in Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP, pages 50–60, Düsseldorf, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.