CLT seminar: Kenneth Wilhelmsson - Swedish Adverbials and Question Correspondences

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Whereas nominals in Swedish running text correspond to a (virtually) small group of wh-counterparts in questions, it is clear from the beginning that adverbials as a group are diverse in comparison.

From a computational perspective, the task of determining question counterparts presupposes identification of full adverbials, their syntactic heads and often heads of complements. But also information about modifiers, the full sentence (its main verb) or even the placement of the adverbial can be essential for correct question generation. This is due to phenomena that could perhaps be more clearly explained through theory of information structure.