Case Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/CaseProperty
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|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Case Property
Direct SubConcepts:
ContablativeCase ContallativeCase ConterminativeCase ContlativeCase DativeCase DelativeCase ElativeCase ErgativeCase EssiveCase GenitiveCase IllativeCase InablativeCase InallativeCase AbessiveCase AblativeCase AbsolutiveCase AccusativeCase AdessiveCase AllativeCase AversiveCase BenefactiveCase ComitativeCase InessiveCase InstrumentalCase InterablativeCase InterallativeCase InteressiveCase InterlativeCase InterminativeCase InterterminativeCase IntertranslativeCase IntranslativeCase LativeCase LocativeCase MalefactiveCase NominativeCase ObliqueCase PartitiveCase PerlativeCase PossessedCase SubablativeCase SuballativeCase SubessiveCase SublativeCase SubterminativeCase SubtranslativeCase SuperablativeCase SuperallativeCase SuperessiveCase SuperlativeCase SuperterminativeCase SupertranslativeCase TerminativeCase TranslativeCase VocativeCase
Definition:
CaseProperty is the class of properties that concern the grammatical encoding of a noun's relationship (syntactic or semantic) to some other element in the sentence, such as a verb, noun, pronoun, or adposition [Pei and Gaynor 1954, 35; Crystal 1980, 53-54; Anderson 1985, 179-180; Andrews 1985, 7172; Kuno 1973, 45; Blake 2001].
See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Case
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2010-03-29 14:18:01
The current definition of CaseProperty (with reference to http://www.grammaticalfeatures.net/features/case.html) seems to apply to both "grammatical case" (e.g., ErgativeCase) and "semantic case" (e.g., MalefactiveCase). Although this can be justified given the usage of "case" in the literature (e.g., the traditional, morphosyntactic concept of case vs. Fillmore's case roles 1966), this design decision conceals a difference that is crucial to modern annotation schemes used for the development of NLP tools. If GOLD is intended to be suitable for corpus linguists, computational linguists and NLP engineers, as well, this difference should be made explicit, e.g., by distinguishing GrammaticalCaseProperty from SemanticCaseProperty.
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The suggested differentiation between grammatical case and "non-grammatical case" was previously implemented in the TDS Ontology (http://languagelink.let.uu.nl/tds/main.html).
In annotation schemes for inflectional languages, e.g., German, grammatical case is modelled as an aspect of morphology (e.g., Brants et al. 2005, http://www.springerlink.com/content/khv5702313320560/), whereas semantic roles are modelled as an aspect of frame annotation (e.g., Burchard et al. 2006, http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/%7Epado/pub/papers/lrec06_burchardt1.pdf).