Norwegian HPSG grammar NorSource

For the web demo of the Norwegian HPSG grammar Norsource, the sentences below can be used for illustration.

More complete test suites for basic verbal constructions are found in

• Verbconstructions Norwegian - intransitive,
• Verbconstructions Norwegian - transitive,
• Verbconstructions Norwegian - ditransitive and copular.

License

[WWW] Lesser General Public License For Linguistic Resources

History and Purpose of the grammar

NorSource is a so-called ‘deep’ computational grammar (‘DG’) of Norwegian, developed throughout the last 12 years. The grammar has been developed with a view to the following overall desiderata:

Desideratum 1. Encoding of Linguistic Meaning

As a ‘generic’ information repository, the DG should have a semantic component from which a Reasoning capacity can be deduced for any domain of discourse – possibly with addition of concepts for the specific domains. It should be like a Fregean ‘Sinn’, in acting as a function from domains of use to models of interpretation. However, contrary to most artificial ‘reasoning’ devices, a DG must span the full complexity of a natural language, reflecting the size of its vocabulary and its grammar complexity. In this respect,the DG can also be