Madalina CERBAN, A Systemic Functional Description of the Simple
... principles in terms of the pragmatic purposes and requirements of verbal interaction. Functional grammars are used for a variety of tasks. First of all, they are used for describing languages in functional terms. Many of the principles of functional grammar we are studying belong to Halliday’s Intro ...
... principles in terms of the pragmatic purposes and requirements of verbal interaction. Functional grammars are used for a variety of tasks. First of all, they are used for describing languages in functional terms. Many of the principles of functional grammar we are studying belong to Halliday’s Intro ...
A Tree-to-Tree Model for Statistical Machine Translation Brooke
... solution involves a novel representation called an aligned extended projection, or AEP. The AEP, inspired by ideas in linguistic theory related to tree-adjoining grammars, is a parsetree like structure that models clause-level phenomena such as verbal argument structure and lexical word-order. The A ...
... solution involves a novel representation called an aligned extended projection, or AEP. The AEP, inspired by ideas in linguistic theory related to tree-adjoining grammars, is a parsetree like structure that models clause-level phenomena such as verbal argument structure and lexical word-order. The A ...
Laura A. Michaelis University of Colorado at Boulder Proceedings of
... Coercion effects are of essentially two types. The first type, which I will refer to as ENDOCENTRIC , involves the resolution of conflict created by an apparent violation of selectional restrictions imposed by a lexical head, e.g., a verb. A simple example is that in which a semantic feature of an a ...
... Coercion effects are of essentially two types. The first type, which I will refer to as ENDOCENTRIC , involves the resolution of conflict created by an apparent violation of selectional restrictions imposed by a lexical head, e.g., a verb. A simple example is that in which a semantic feature of an a ...
1 Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in
... for the Complementarity Effect in the Celtic languages, both carefully developed for Breton by Stump (1984): the Incorporation Analysis and the Agreement Analysis. On the INCORPORATION ANALYSIS, rich agreement morphology is the spell-out of a pronoun itself, not of φ-agreement with it. Only pronouns ...
... for the Complementarity Effect in the Celtic languages, both carefully developed for Breton by Stump (1984): the Incorporation Analysis and the Agreement Analysis. On the INCORPORATION ANALYSIS, rich agreement morphology is the spell-out of a pronoun itself, not of φ-agreement with it. Only pronouns ...
teaching english clause structure
... with 'wh-word' (i) as subject: How he will make out is no business of yours, (ii) as object: I can't understand how he can tolerate such impertinence, (iii) as subjective complement: The question is not who will pass but who will get a distinction. (iv) as adjective complement: I wasn't sure whose b ...
... with 'wh-word' (i) as subject: How he will make out is no business of yours, (ii) as object: I can't understand how he can tolerate such impertinence, (iii) as subjective complement: The question is not who will pass but who will get a distinction. (iv) as adjective complement: I wasn't sure whose b ...
FreDist : Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for
... often used in the literature, and is applied because distributional similarity methods are known to suffer degraded performance for terms that appear infrequently in a corpus (Gorman & Curran, 2006). Secondary lexical terms w′ were also subject to the POS tag restriction, and contexts (r, w′ ) were ...
... often used in the literature, and is applied because distributional similarity methods are known to suffer degraded performance for terms that appear infrequently in a corpus (Gorman & Curran, 2006). Secondary lexical terms w′ were also subject to the POS tag restriction, and contexts (r, w′ ) were ...
CLIPP Christiani Lehmanni inedita, publicanda
... towards iconicity (cf. Haiman 1980) or, as the older term used to be, towards isomorphism (cf. Lehmann 1974) between the content and the expression sides. That is, if there is an extra semantic or functional unit in a given structure, it tends to have an extra expression unit associated with it, and ...
... towards iconicity (cf. Haiman 1980) or, as the older term used to be, towards isomorphism (cf. Lehmann 1974) between the content and the expression sides. That is, if there is an extra semantic or functional unit in a given structure, it tends to have an extra expression unit associated with it, and ...
UM_Sintaksis_(teorgrammatika)_022600_st
... Croningen, 1932) is another important contribution to linguistic analysis of the first half of the XXth century. E.Kruisinga, who uses the term “syntactic group” in reference to phrases, defines a syntactic group as “a combination of words that forms a distinct part of a sentence”. He classifies syn ...
... Croningen, 1932) is another important contribution to linguistic analysis of the first half of the XXth century. E.Kruisinga, who uses the term “syntactic group” in reference to phrases, defines a syntactic group as “a combination of words that forms a distinct part of a sentence”. He classifies syn ...
Coordinating constructions in Fongbe with - Archipel
... must be overt, as in (5) and (7), and when the two clauses are coordinated by bó, the subject of the second conjunct must be covert, as in (6). This discrepancy raises the question of the syntactic status of b‡ and bó. What features do they have in common, and what features distinguish them? Are the ...
... must be overt, as in (5) and (7), and when the two clauses are coordinated by bó, the subject of the second conjunct must be covert, as in (6). This discrepancy raises the question of the syntactic status of b‡ and bó. What features do they have in common, and what features distinguish them? Are the ...
Dowty - Princeton University
... Hinrichs (1981) has applied Kamp's ideas to the analysis of English discourses. In accord with the observations I have cited above about the role of aspectual class, Hinrichs subcategorizes sentences syntactically by their aspectual class - statives, activities, etc. - in order that these classes ca ...
... Hinrichs (1981) has applied Kamp's ideas to the analysis of English discourses. In accord with the observations I have cited above about the role of aspectual class, Hinrichs subcategorizes sentences syntactically by their aspectual class - statives, activities, etc. - in order that these classes ca ...
PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DEDUCTIVE PARSING STUART M. SHIEBER, YVES SCHABES, AND
... Many of the ideas that we present are not new. Some have been presented before; others form part of the folk wisdom of the logic programming community. However, the present work is to our knowledge the first to make the ideas available explicitly in a single notation and with a clean implementation. ...
... Many of the ideas that we present are not new. Some have been presented before; others form part of the folk wisdom of the logic programming community. However, the present work is to our knowledge the first to make the ideas available explicitly in a single notation and with a clean implementation. ...
Implicit Negation in Selected Romantic Poems in the English
... 5- I disagree that learning English is difficult 3.3- Implicit Negative Adverbs and Quantifiers. Some adverbs in positive sentences give the meaning of negative in English. Leech (1983: 100) has said that there are adverbs and determiners which are negative in meaning, but not in form (e.g., barely, ...
... 5- I disagree that learning English is difficult 3.3- Implicit Negative Adverbs and Quantifiers. Some adverbs in positive sentences give the meaning of negative in English. Leech (1983: 100) has said that there are adverbs and determiners which are negative in meaning, but not in form (e.g., barely, ...
A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence
... experimental evidence suggests that humans predict upcoming structure or lexemes during sentence processing. However, none of the current sentence processing theories capture prediction explicitly. This thesis proposes a novel model of incremental sentence processing that offers an explicit predicti ...
... experimental evidence suggests that humans predict upcoming structure or lexemes during sentence processing. However, none of the current sentence processing theories capture prediction explicitly. This thesis proposes a novel model of incremental sentence processing that offers an explicit predicti ...
Ineffability in Grammar
... Second, quite a number of instances of ineffability in the syntax involve a situation in which abstract syntactic constellations simply cannot be filled by appropriate lexical items. Ineffability is due to lexical problems in this context, too, but the problems are of a different sort: they involve ...
... Second, quite a number of instances of ineffability in the syntax involve a situation in which abstract syntactic constellations simply cannot be filled by appropriate lexical items. Ineffability is due to lexical problems in this context, too, but the problems are of a different sort: they involve ...
Translating Infinitival Structures
... a message which he himself has to understand first; therefore he must have a feeling for language, linguistic knowledge, grammatical skill, language creativity, intuition, analytical skills, experience and method. Hence, many works on translation highlight that translators must perfectly master both ...
... a message which he himself has to understand first; therefore he must have a feeling for language, linguistic knowledge, grammatical skill, language creativity, intuition, analytical skills, experience and method. Hence, many works on translation highlight that translators must perfectly master both ...
Grammatical Relations in Chinese: Synchronic and Diachronic
... core that is the vestige of the parent language. As the languages developed, often diverging from each other typologically, they carried this core with them, and this influenced the types of grammaticalizations that could occur in those languages. We find for example that, except for some languages ...
... core that is the vestige of the parent language. As the languages developed, often diverging from each other typologically, they carried this core with them, and this influenced the types of grammaticalizations that could occur in those languages. We find for example that, except for some languages ...
Grammar 6
... Sentences Good writing has a natural flow. Sentences that vary in structure and length create a readable style. When writing follows the rhythms of speech, it is a pleasure to read aloud. Here are some ways to improve your sentences. • Vary sentence types. Make your writing sound natural by using in ...
... Sentences Good writing has a natural flow. Sentences that vary in structure and length create a readable style. When writing follows the rhythms of speech, it is a pleasure to read aloud. Here are some ways to improve your sentences. • Vary sentence types. Make your writing sound natural by using in ...
pros sign 4-10
... system on one side, and the cognitive–intentional (CI) one on the other. In the minimalist spirit, the utterance must also be exhaustively represented. Namely, we cannot expect a deus ex machina to provide further information in order to obtain the correct phonology and meaning: everything must alre ...
... system on one side, and the cognitive–intentional (CI) one on the other. In the minimalist spirit, the utterance must also be exhaustively represented. Namely, we cannot expect a deus ex machina to provide further information in order to obtain the correct phonology and meaning: everything must alre ...
ENG421 - National Open University of Nigeria
... ENG 421 is a one semester three credit units 400 level course. It is designed for students whose major discipline is English. The course consists of eighteen units that present the new trends in syntactic explorations within the generative thinking. The material has been developed with local example ...
... ENG 421 is a one semester three credit units 400 level course. It is designed for students whose major discipline is English. The course consists of eighteen units that present the new trends in syntactic explorations within the generative thinking. The material has been developed with local example ...
Filling Gaps: Decision principles and structure in sentence
... The correct grammatical characterization of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies is a topic of considerable theoretical interest in linguistics. In some grammatical frameworks, these dependencies are represented in terms of conditions on the permissible indexing of structures (or alternative ...
... The correct grammatical characterization of sentences containing filler-gap dependencies is a topic of considerable theoretical interest in linguistics. In some grammatical frameworks, these dependencies are represented in terms of conditions on the permissible indexing of structures (or alternative ...
The Syntax of Meteorology: The Linguistic Status of Variadic Functions
... uncontroversially definite on most of their uses. There are other kinds of weather reports, such as those involving adjectives (It’s sunny), and more general reports on the environment. For our purposes, the kind of weather reports offered above will suffice, for my aim is to argue that they do not ...
... uncontroversially definite on most of their uses. There are other kinds of weather reports, such as those involving adjectives (It’s sunny), and more general reports on the environment. For our purposes, the kind of weather reports offered above will suffice, for my aim is to argue that they do not ...
A typology of split conjunction
... structures, which involve the disruption of the phrasal continuity of the conjuncts, resulting in structures roughly equivalent to ‘they are having lunch with Mary’ and ‘John are having lunch with Mary’. I claim that such splits are allowed by the inherent asymmetries of conjunctional structures, an ...
... structures, which involve the disruption of the phrasal continuity of the conjuncts, resulting in structures roughly equivalent to ‘they are having lunch with Mary’ and ‘John are having lunch with Mary’. I claim that such splits are allowed by the inherent asymmetries of conjunctional structures, an ...
Discourse, grammar, discourse
... get some soda), syntactic paraphrases (e.g. Chelsea was booed off by their own fans – WebCorp, versus ~Their own fans booed Chelsea off) and phonological paraphrases, or variants (e.g. the horse kinda helps you out – SBC: 001, versus ~ the horse kind of helps you out).3 Such grammatical and conceptu ...
... get some soda), syntactic paraphrases (e.g. Chelsea was booed off by their own fans – WebCorp, versus ~Their own fans booed Chelsea off) and phonological paraphrases, or variants (e.g. the horse kinda helps you out – SBC: 001, versus ~ the horse kind of helps you out).3 Such grammatical and conceptu ...