4. T-lemma substitute

The term t-lemma substitute is used for artificial t-lemmas beginning with #. T-lemma substitutes are assigned to:

  1. newly established nodes that are not copies of other nodes (see Section 6, “Ellipsis”).

    T-lemma substitutes: #AsMuch, #Benef, #Cor, #EmpNoun, #EmpVerb, #Equal, #Forn, #Gen, #Idph, #Neg, #Oblfm, #PersPron, #QCor, #Rcp, #Separ, #Some, #Unsp, #Total (see Table 4.8, “Survey of newly established nodes in Section 6, “Ellipsis”).

  2. nodes representing personal pronouns and their possessive counterparts, reflexive pronouns and the verbal pro-form (dummy-do, only in non-negated utterances).

    T-lemma substitutes: #PersPron, #VerbPron, #Rcp (when substituting each other/one another)

  3. nodes representing punctuation marks and other non-alphabetical/numerical symbols (if used at the tectogrammatical level).

    For their t-lemma substitutes see Table 3.1, “T-lemma substitutes of non-alphabetical/numerical symbols.

Table 3.1. T-lemma substitutes of non-alphabetical/numerical symbols

Non-alphabetical/numerical symbolDescription of the symbolT-lemma substitute
&ampersand#Amp
%per cent#Percnt
*asterisk#Ast
.period#Period
...three periods#Period3
:colon#Colon
,comma#Comma
;semicolon#Semicolon
-hyphen#Dash
dash#Dash
/slash#Slash
(left bracket#Bracket
)right bracket#Bracket

List of all t-lemma substitutes (in alphabetical order). In Table 3.2, “List of all t-lemma substitutes (in alphabetical order)., there is a list of all t-lemma substitutes occurring in the tectogrammatical trees. The t-lemmas are in alphabetical order and it is always indicated whether they represent a word/symbol present in the surface structure or whether they correspond to a newly established node (with no counterpart at the surface level). Furthermore, it is specified which node type is usually connected with a particular t-lemma.

Table 3.2. List of all t-lemma substitutes (in alphabetical order).

T-lemmanodetypeis_generatedNode description

#Amp

coap

0

node representing the symbol &

#AsMuch

qcomplex

1

node for an expression introducing a consecutive clause

#Ast

qcomplex

0

node representing the symbol *

#Benef

qcomplex

1

node for the Beneficiary in control constructions

#Bracket

coap

0

node representing a bracket

#Colon

coap
qcomplex

0

node representing a colon

#Comma

coap
qcomplex

0

node representing a comma

#Cor

qcomplex

1

node representing the controllee in control constructions

#Dash

coap
qcomplex

0

node representing a hyphen or dash

#EmpNoun

complex

1

node representing an elided governing expression of syntactic adjectives

#EmpVerb

qcomplex

1

node representing the elided governing predicate of a verbal clause

#Equal

qcomplex

1

node for the elided adjective in positive in comparative constructions

#Forn

list

1

root node of a list structure for foreign-language expressions

#Gen

qcomplex

0

node for a general argument

#Idph

list

1

root node of an identifying structure

#Neg

atom

1

node for syntactic negation

#Oblfm

qcomplex

1

node representing an elided obligatory adjunct

#Percnt

qcomplex

0

node representing the symbol %

#Period

coap

0

node representing a period

#Period3

coap
qcomplex

0

node representing three dots

#PersPron

complex

0

1

node representing personal or possessive pronouns (including reflexives). With newly established nodes, the #PersPron t-lemma signals ellipsis.

#QCor

qcomplex

1

node representing the quasi-controllee in quasi-control constructions

#Rcp

qcomplex

1

node representing a valency modification omitted due to its participation in a reciprocal relation, or each other/one another

#Semicolon

coap

0

node representing a semicolon

#Separ

coap

1

auxiliary node for representing parataxis

#Slash

coap

0

node representing a slash

#Some

qcomplex

1

node for the nominal part of a verbonominal predicate in comparative constructions

#Total

qcomplex

1

node for a non-expressed totalizer in constructions with the meaning of a restriction

#Unsp

qcomplex

1

node representing an unspecified valency modification

#VerbPron
complex
1node representing the verbal pro-form (dummy-do) in positive (non-negated) utterances. It has the original do-node attached as auxrf and it inherits its grammatemes.