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Variable and Inherent Features, Agreement, Unicode Support

For Hebrew, NP has gender as its inherent feature — a field in the record. VP has gender as its variable feature — an argument of a table. In predication, the VP receives the gender of the NP.

Concrete syntax: Hebrew

concrete ZeroHeb of Zero = { flags coding=utf8 ; lincat S = Str ; NP = {s : Str ; g : Gender} ; VP, V2 = Gender => Str ; lin Pred np vp = np.s ++ vp ! np.g ; Compl v2 np = table {g => v2 ! g ++ "את" ++ np.s} ; John = {s = "ג׳ון" ; g = Masc} ; Mary = {s = "מרי" ; g = Fem} ; Love = table {Masc => "אוהב" ; Fem => "אוהבת"} ; param Gender = Masc | Fem ; }

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