Heuristic Disambiguation of Deverbal Nominals in Greek
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Deverbal nouns exhibit both nominal and verbal syntactic behaviour: they operate as concrete nouns, but also participate in verbal constructions where they require arguments and accept aspectual modification. We first describe the phenomenon and discuss theoretical analyses proposed in the literature, and then propose a methodology for applying the theoretical results to parsing of nominal phrases of Greek.
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