Norwegian HPSG grammar NorSource

For the web demo for the Norwegian HPSG grammar Norsource (http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/forskning/norsource/service.html), the sentences below can be used for illustration. (The same demo can be accessed at http://august.hf.ntnu.no:8200/norsource, currently with one difference: the latter always allows the letters æ, ø, å, the former sometimes not.)

More complete test suites for basic verbal constructions are found in Verbconstructions Norwegian - intransitive, Verbconstructions Norwegian - transitive, Verbconstructions Norwegian - ditransitive and copular. Construction codes are explained in Verbconstructions cross-linguistically - Introduction.

The 'MRS test suite' commonly used across the DELPH-IN grammars, in its Norwegian form used by the grammar, can be viewed at http://www.typecraft.org/tc2wiki/images/8/8e/Mrs-suite.pdf.

Articles providing general introduction to NorSource include: http://www.typecraft.org/tc2wiki/images/3/35/PrepSem-MRS-NorSource.pdf

Sentence adverbs

Ola kommer ikke

'Ola comes not'

Auxiliary 'have'

Ola har sovet

'Ola has slept'

Clause final locative modification

Ola har sovet bak huset

'Ola has slept behind the house'

Clause initial locative modification

bak huset har Ola sovet

'behind the house Ola has slept'

'Mid field' locative modification

Ola har under broen sunget

'Ola has under the bridge sung'

Directional modification

gutten rusler mot fjellet

'the boy strolls towards the mountain'

gutten rusler til fjellet

'the boy strolls to the mountain'

gutten rusler mot fjellet langs elva

'the boy strolls towards the mountain along the river'

gutten rusler hit

'the boy strolls to here'

Measure and comparative expressions

Ola er tilstrekkelig lang

'Ola is sufficiently tall'

Ola er to meter lang

'Ola is two meters tall'

Ola er mer storvokst enn Per

'Ola is more tall-built than Per'

Ola er atskillig mer storvokst enn Per

'Ola is considerably more tall-built than Per'

En mer enn to centimeter lengre mann enn Per sover

'a more than two centimeters taller man than Per sleeps'