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1 month ago In the end, this led to fairly major changes in the use of N-bar and Opt-spec phrase structure rules. The changes are still in the agr-divorce branch but seem to overall lead to a much clearer picture.
As part of working on #95, I created a new noun type for nouns which allow optional specifiers at least when they are complements to the copula ("Es profesor.") Before, this was working due to underspecified SPR <> value in some places and due to underspecified AGR values in others, which meant some nouns which started as DIVISIBLE - could then go through the N-bar unary ruse as DIVISIBLE +. If this distinction is to be kept at all, then sentences such as "Es profesor" should be licensed not with N-bar but with the opt-specifier. For that, such nouns could belong to a different noun subtype. But changing that throughout the lexicon is a task of its own. One way it could be automated is, one could look at all entries which are SORT hum and then from those, filter out professions using e.g. AI. For now, I did this for some nous, in particular ones found in the corpus. The new type is called n_-_prof_native_le