A grammar design accommodating packed argument frame information on verbs.

This paper presents a comparison of two designs for implementing argument frame information on verbs. In the first design, alternating verbs will be represented with one lexical entry pr. possible argument frame. In the other design, each verb form will be associated with only one lexical entry containing a packed representation of the possible ar- gument frames. The first design represents how valence alter nations are treated in lexicalist grammars, while the second shows how valence alternations can be handled in a construction- alist grammar. The comparison is done with an implemented deep grammar of Norwegian.