Note: This page was started as an incubator for the construction-oriented documentation of the UD guidelines. It was started by Dan and Joakim during Dan’s visit in Uppsala in 2018. The list on this index page indicates topics that we thought would have to be covered. Only a few of the pages were written before the effort got stalled, though. On the other hand, some of the newly written pages have been approved and elevated to the main guidelines. In such cases the links from this index should lead up to the main guidelines.
Construction-Oriented Documentation
- Simple verbal clauses (intransitive, transitive; core vs. oblique arguments)
- Simple noun phrases
- Modifiers (obliques and adverbials; adjectives; adverbs modifying nouns; modifiers modifying other modifiers)
- Coordination (of simple noun phrases or simple clauses; difference from parataxis?)
- More about simple clauses
- Intransitive and zero-transitive clauses (intransitive clauses with obligatory oblique arguments, split intransitivity, zero transitivity with a link to expletives, the “dative subject” issue)
- Ditransitive clauses
- Valency-changing operations (passive, antipassive, causative, applicative)
- Expletives, multiple realizations of arguments
- Nonprototypical clauses
- Complex predicates
- Auxiliaries
- Light verbs
- Serial verbs
- Modal verbs
- Negation
- Questions (yes/no-questions, wh-questions)
- Commands, vocative
- Non-canonical sentences, fragments
- Subordinate clauses
- Complement clauses
- “Complement” clauses of nouns (
acl:comp?)
- “Complement” clauses of nouns (
- Subject clauses
- Adverbial clauses
- Relative clauses
- Free relatives (see also issues and other discussions, e.g. this comment)
- Other adnominal clauses
- Open complements (and secondary predication)
- Direct speech, indirect/reported speech, indirect questions
- Complement clauses
- More about noun phrases
- Children of determiners
- Possession
- Compounds (here nominal and perhaps adjectival and numeral, but with a cross-link to verbal, i.e. light/serial verbs, and phrasal verbs)
- Flat constituents
- Multi-word named entities
- Apposition
- (All of the above should be compared to
nmodand the dividing line should be drawn.)
- Comparative constructions
- Ellipsis
- Punctuation
- Other relations not covered by the above
- Parataxis, list, fixed, reparandum, goeswith, discourse
- Other stuff
- Word segmentation (where to segment and where not)
- Typos and other errors in the underlying text
- Dates, numbers and measures (and classifiers?)
- Quoted text in foreign language (e.g. book/movie titles); foreign names; code switching
- Abbreviations, multi-word abbreviations, acronyms