Generating Determiners and Quanti ers in Hebrew

This paper presents a speciic part of HUGG, a generation grammar for Hebrew. This part deals with determiners and quantiiers. Our main goal is to determine which set of features must be present in the input to the generation grammar to control the generation of complex determiners and quantiiers. Hebrew determiners are characterized by two properties: (1) deeniteness is marked in several places in the NP and it interacts with compound constructs; (2) the order of appearance of determiners and quantiiers within a complex NP is exible but still restricted. HUGG is developed with the goal to design an input speciication language for syntactic realization as close as possible for English and Hebrew, to allow easy development of bilingual generation applications. We show in this paper how the original set of features controlling the generation of determiners in SURGE, a large generation grammar for English, has been enriched to account for the speciicities of Hebrew determiners and how, in the process, SURGE has been modiied and improved. We present a set of functional features { organized around the categories of amount, partitive and identity { and show how these features determine a variety of syntactic constructs.