GrammarSoft ApS

'Chipping off of the block'

The mappings create a 'brutto-analysis', in which you are certain that you have given the correct analysis - along with a lot of incorrect ones. To use a metaphor that is often used in Constraint Grammar, this is like a boulder before the stone-cutter starts chiseling out the statue within it, by removing all the superfluous rock around it. Now we have to distinguish the correct from the incorrect analyses.

I do this in three steps, three sub-algorithms run one after the other:

1. idiosyncratic collocations
2. 'chipping off'
3. cleaning up

• Idiosyncratic collocations
• 'Chipping off'
  • Relative clauses
  • Theme
  • Patient and Resultative
  • Experiencer
  • Objects
• Cleaning up