Abstract
Using a corpus to investigate empirically grammatical phenomena prior to writing grammatical rules or constraints for a disambiguating tagger is important. The paper shows how even case distinctions on pronouns are used more diversely than is usually assumed. Both in English and Norwegian nominative pronouns are used in more positions than the expected Subject one. Although the other uses are statistically less frequent, they may be important to the users of the resulting tagged corpus – who are often theoretical linguists. A tagger should therefore tag correctly also the more infrequent constructions. The paper shows how this can be done in a Constraint Grammar type tagger.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Anttila, A. “How to Recognise Subjects in English”. Ed. F. Karlsson, A. Voutilainen, J. Heikkilä and A. Anttila, 1995, pp. 315–358.
Faarlund, J. T., S. Lie and K. I. Vannebo. Norsk Referansegrammatikk, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo, 1997.
Holmberg, A. and C. Platzack. The Role of Inflection in Scandinavian Syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Johannessen, J. B. Coordination. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 (forthcoming).
Johansson, S. K. A. “Nouns, Pronouns, and the Simple Noun Phrase”. Unpublished manuscript. Department of British and American Studies, University of Oslo, 1996.
Karlsson, F. “Constraint Grammar as a Framework for Parsing Running Text”. In Papers Presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Vol. 3. Ed. H. Karlgren, Helsinki, 1990, pp. 168–173.
Karlsson, F., A. Voutilainen, J. Heikkilä and A. Anttila (eds.). Constraint Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
Napoli, D. J. Syntax. Theory and Problems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech and J. Svartvik. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman, 1985.
Radford, A. Transformational Grammar. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Voutilainen, A., J. Heikkilä and A. Anttila. Constraint Grammar of English – A Performance-oriented Introduction. Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, Publications No. 21, 1992.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Johannessen, J.B. Tagging and the Case of Pronouns. Computers and the Humanities 32, 1–38 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001190200530
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001190200530