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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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belong TO #116

Closed esmanning closed 2 years ago

esmanning commented 3 years ago

e.g.

The fourth planet belonged TO a businessman. lpp_13 sent_id = lpp_1943.649

belong_to seems like a somewhat idiosyncratic use of TO, so perhaps an MWE?

If not: the scene role is Possessor, but what's the function? TO is often Goal, but intuitions differed on whether there's anything Goal-ish in this. If not, maybe Possessor\~Theme?

nschneid commented 3 years ago

It occurs once in STREUSLE and is treated as an MWE.

aryamanarora commented 3 years ago

Potential multilingual connection: Dravidian languages and some Indo-Aryan languages (including Dakhini, a southern dialect of Hindi-Urdu) prototypically use the dative case for possession, which is parallel to TO here. Maybe Possessor~Goal is not a bad label then, and I guess it could be construed as a kind of fictive motion.

nschneid commented 3 years ago

@aryamanarora In those languages, what verb is used for predicative possession? Something like "be", or "belong"?

nschneid commented 3 years ago

"Belong" inflects as a full verb, so this is more of a prepositional verb than a multiword preposition.

aryamanarora commented 3 years ago

@nschneid In Indo-Aryan, the copula. In Dravidian, I don't think they use copulas generally so nothing I presume.

Couple examples from Masica (1999):

nschneid commented 2 years ago

Possessor~Goal seems good