| Multi-word expressions (MWEs) in Modern Hebrew (MH), as
in other languages, are not simple to characterize, since they vary in
the degree of idiosyncrasy with respect to their semantic, syntactic,
and morphological behavior. MWEs in MH are found in various syntactic
constructions. In this talk we focus on verbal MWEs: we consider
different types of this class of MWEs, and propose an analysis in the
framework of HPSG. Moreover, we incorporate this analysis in HeGram, a
deep linguistic processing grammar of Modern Hebrew. Our motivation is
twofold. First, the need to incorporate MWEs into the grammar is
unquestionable, especially in light of estimates claiming that MWEs
account for approximately half of the entries in the lexicon. Second,
we view MWEs as a challenging test case for the innovative architecture
implemented in HeGram.
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