SWETWOL is implemented in the framework of Koskenniemi's (1983) two-level model. It contains a 48,000 item lexicon and a full inflectional description. Special attention was paid to the design of a computational analysis of productive Swedish compounds. Recall (coverage) and precision of SWETWOL meet high standards. SWETWOL has been extensively tested on various types of texts.

For both of the two Danish construction han sidder og sover “he sits and sleeps” and han kom gående “he came walking (along)”, it has been suggested that the second verb is governed by the first in the same way as a main verb is governed by an auxiliary or modal verb. Specifically, this would imply that the second verb is located in the non-finite verb slot in the topological sentence pattern. It is shown that these suggestions are not justified and that the Danish verbal constructions only allow infinitives and past participles as verbal complements of another verb.

In this article it is demonstrated how verbal and non-verbal expressions, i.e. speech and gestures, interact to convey social and cognitive information in an excerpt taken from a conversational discussion. The theoretical framework for the article is that of information processing. Within this framework, verbal and non-verbal expressions in the conversation are characterized as discourse operations which develop and refine information in a generative search in analogy with an AI production system. The discourse operations function as underspecified instructions that in interaction with given information states generate new information states in search of a desired information state.