Slides - Susi Wurmbrand
... Several languages allow constructions in which a Casemarked DP occurs below the head assumed to license the DP’s Case, and it can be shown that the DP never occurs in a position where it c-commands that Case ...
... Several languages allow constructions in which a Casemarked DP occurs below the head assumed to license the DP’s Case, and it can be shown that the DP never occurs in a position where it c-commands that Case ...
A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NONCANONICAL WORD ORDER
... Every Process functions as the pivotal element of a situation – the name for the unit at the level of meaning that is equivalent to the clause at the level of form. Moreover, the Process determines the number of Participants and their semantic roles. The salient participants can be one, two or three ...
... Every Process functions as the pivotal element of a situation – the name for the unit at the level of meaning that is equivalent to the clause at the level of form. Moreover, the Process determines the number of Participants and their semantic roles. The salient participants can be one, two or three ...
Non-Constituent Coordination: Prosody, Not Movement Benjamin
... Non-constituent coordination has been a topic of interest from the earliest days of generative grammar, when it was just a sub-type of a general rule of Conjunction Reduction (e.g. Ross, 1967). This type of coordination began to take on particular significance in Sag (1976), Hudson (1976, 1982), Sag ...
... Non-constituent coordination has been a topic of interest from the earliest days of generative grammar, when it was just a sub-type of a general rule of Conjunction Reduction (e.g. Ross, 1967). This type of coordination began to take on particular significance in Sag (1976), Hudson (1976, 1982), Sag ...
Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language
... an analysis of a sentence. We will say that a sentence representation is analyzed if we can assign every symbol in that sentence representation to some elementary string, either a center string, or an adjunct or replacement string inserted according to the operation of the stringclass definitions. E ...
... an analysis of a sentence. We will say that a sentence representation is analyzed if we can assign every symbol in that sentence representation to some elementary string, either a center string, or an adjunct or replacement string inserted according to the operation of the stringclass definitions. E ...
Understanding Natural Language - Department of Information and
... Implementation details. When operating with a 200 word vocabulary and a fairly complex scene, the program occupies approximately 8OK of core. This includes the LISP interpreter, all of the programs, dictionary entries, and data, and enough free storage to remember a sequence of actions and to handle ...
... Implementation details. When operating with a 200 word vocabulary and a fairly complex scene, the program occupies approximately 8OK of core. This includes the LISP interpreter, all of the programs, dictionary entries, and data, and enough free storage to remember a sequence of actions and to handle ...
Features, Syntax, and Categories in the Latin Perfect
... Features that are phonological, or purely morphological, or arbitrary properties of vocabulary items, are not present in the syntax; syntacticosemanticfeatures are not inserted in morphology. This position is a clear consequence of the hypothesis that Late Insertion is universal, that is, applies in ...
... Features that are phonological, or purely morphological, or arbitrary properties of vocabulary items, are not present in the syntax; syntacticosemanticfeatures are not inserted in morphology. This position is a clear consequence of the hypothesis that Late Insertion is universal, that is, applies in ...
Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
... layered structure of the clause traditionally assumed in RRG. This approach allows them to codify not only argument structure constructions but also nonpropositional elements of meaning that have been of concern in pragmatics and discourse analysis. To this end, the authors distinguish four levels o ...
... layered structure of the clause traditionally assumed in RRG. This approach allows them to codify not only argument structure constructions but also nonpropositional elements of meaning that have been of concern in pragmatics and discourse analysis. To this end, the authors distinguish four levels o ...
Putting Pieces Together: Combining FrameNet, VerbNet
... and (2) ensuring that these verbs share a common meaning, by checking the intersection of their corresponding sense lists. For the first verb set, consisting of VerbNet entries that have a direct counterpart in FrameNet, we label them with the corresponding frames by relying on their common WordNet s ...
... and (2) ensuring that these verbs share a common meaning, by checking the intersection of their corresponding sense lists. For the first verb set, consisting of VerbNet entries that have a direct counterpart in FrameNet, we label them with the corresponding frames by relying on their common WordNet s ...
automatic prosodic sentence analysis, accentuation and phrasing
... Some syntactic information, however, is of vital importance for a correct prosodic analysis. For example, the main verb (or verb group) in a sentence must be identified. This word (group) establishes a Predicate constituent, which should correspond to a separate Phi domain (Gee and Grosjean 1983). I ...
... Some syntactic information, however, is of vital importance for a correct prosodic analysis. For example, the main verb (or verb group) in a sentence must be identified. This word (group) establishes a Predicate constituent, which should correspond to a separate Phi domain (Gee and Grosjean 1983). I ...
Clause From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In grammar, a clause
... clauses. Gerund clauses The underlined words in the following examples are judged to be non-finite clauses, e.g. a. Bill stopping the project was a big disappointment. - Non-finite gerund clause b. Bill's stopping the project was a big disappointment. - Gerund with noun status a. We've heard about ...
... clauses. Gerund clauses The underlined words in the following examples are judged to be non-finite clauses, e.g. a. Bill stopping the project was a big disappointment. - Non-finite gerund clause b. Bill's stopping the project was a big disappointment. - Gerund with noun status a. We've heard about ...
Chapter 4: Syntactic Relations and Case Marking
... the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles. The traditional description of these phenomena is in terms of the grammatical relations of subject, direct object and indirect object, but the investigation of Philippine, ergative and active languages has shown that analyses ba ...
... the postulation of grammatical relations in addition to semantic roles. The traditional description of these phenomena is in terms of the grammatical relations of subject, direct object and indirect object, but the investigation of Philippine, ergative and active languages has shown that analyses ba ...
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
... John washes the car. ⇒ The car is washed by John. • We could write rules to generate the second sentence directly. • Problem with such approach: no generalization ...
... John washes the car. ⇒ The car is washed by John. • We could write rules to generate the second sentence directly. • Problem with such approach: no generalization ...
The persistence of optional complementizer
... Keywords: Psycholinguistics; Language production; Sentence processing; Syntactic processing; Syntactic priming; Complementizer processing ...
... Keywords: Psycholinguistics; Language production; Sentence processing; Syntactic processing; Syntactic priming; Complementizer processing ...
Towards deep content extraction from specialized discourse: The case of ver-
... Relations are also essential in applications such as semantic lexicon construction, question answering, textual entailment, text generation, etc. As already mentioned, we are interested in the extraction of relations between complex objects described in patent claims. The claim section is the most i ...
... Relations are also essential in applications such as semantic lexicon construction, question answering, textual entailment, text generation, etc. As already mentioned, we are interested in the extraction of relations between complex objects described in patent claims. The claim section is the most i ...
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
... roughly 50,000 sentences from the British National Corpus hand-labeled with these frame elements. This article presents our system in stages, beginning in Section 2 with a more detailed description of the data and the set of frame elements or semantic roles used. We then introduce (in Section 3) the ...
... roughly 50,000 sentences from the British National Corpus hand-labeled with these frame elements. This article presents our system in stages, beginning in Section 2 with a more detailed description of the data and the set of frame elements or semantic roles used. We then introduce (in Section 3) the ...
Automatic Labeling of Semantic Roles
... sets of semantic roles. These sets of roles range from the very specific to the very general, and many have been used in computational implementations of one type or another. At the specific end of the spectrum are domain-specific roles such as the FROM AIRPORT , TO AIRPORT , or DEPART TIME discusse ...
... sets of semantic roles. These sets of roles range from the very specific to the very general, and many have been used in computational implementations of one type or another. At the specific end of the spectrum are domain-specific roles such as the FROM AIRPORT , TO AIRPORT , or DEPART TIME discusse ...
(NL) Character Strings
... A deductively normal pattern (D) on C induced by conceptually normal SSRAs on (1) and (4), and a conceptually non-normal SSRA on (3). Pattern (D) would be induced by an SSRA on C which included conceptually normal representations SYN-(1) and SYN-(4) of (1) and (4), and the following conceptually non ...
... A deductively normal pattern (D) on C induced by conceptually normal SSRAs on (1) and (4), and a conceptually non-normal SSRA on (3). Pattern (D) would be induced by an SSRA on C which included conceptually normal representations SYN-(1) and SYN-(4) of (1) and (4), and the following conceptually non ...
linguistic features of pun, its typology and classification
... (Take a bath), as a fixed phrase means to have a shower, but its direct, word for word translation can be - carry away a bath, to carry it from one place to another. This two-way perception and understanding of one and the same phrase creates ambiguity and causes laughter. (2). -When do parents comp ...
... (Take a bath), as a fixed phrase means to have a shower, but its direct, word for word translation can be - carry away a bath, to carry it from one place to another. This two-way perception and understanding of one and the same phrase creates ambiguity and causes laughter. (2). -When do parents comp ...
Reaching agreement as a core syntactic process
... linguistic phenomenon (the observable sharing of features between, for example, the subject and the verb in a sentence), and the psycholinguistic process underlying its realization (the non-observable underlying cognitive function). However, at least two distinct processes are involved in agreement ...
... linguistic phenomenon (the observable sharing of features between, for example, the subject and the verb in a sentence), and the psycholinguistic process underlying its realization (the non-observable underlying cognitive function). However, at least two distinct processes are involved in agreement ...
Treebank-Based Deep Grammar Acquisition for French Probabilistic Parsing Resources Natalie Schluter
... Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in wide-coverage grammars automatically obtained from treebanks. In particular, recent years have seen a move towards acquiring deep (LFG, HPSG and CCG) resources that can represe ...
... Motivated by the expense in time and other resources to produce hand-crafted grammars, there has been increased interest in wide-coverage grammars automatically obtained from treebanks. In particular, recent years have seen a move towards acquiring deep (LFG, HPSG and CCG) resources that can represe ...
(Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational
... In this paper, I hope to sketch an answer to these questions, utilizing some theoretical tools developed in Emonds (1985). To my mind, these tools provide, almost automatically, some satisfying formal representations that succinctly express empirical generalizations about this subject matter. The fa ...
... In this paper, I hope to sketch an answer to these questions, utilizing some theoretical tools developed in Emonds (1985). To my mind, these tools provide, almost automatically, some satisfying formal representations that succinctly express empirical generalizations about this subject matter. The fa ...
User`s Guide for the Accordance Hebrew Syntax Database
... 1. History of the Accordance Hebrew Syntax Project In 2008 Martin G. Abegg Jr. (Trinity Western University) and I began collaborating, with significant input from John A. Cook (Asbury Theological Seminary) and Roy B. Brown (Oaktree Software), on the development of a syntactic database for all ancien ...
... 1. History of the Accordance Hebrew Syntax Project In 2008 Martin G. Abegg Jr. (Trinity Western University) and I began collaborating, with significant input from John A. Cook (Asbury Theological Seminary) and Roy B. Brown (Oaktree Software), on the development of a syntactic database for all ancien ...
Open Information Extraction from Real Internet Texts in Spanish
... boundaries for POS tag-based methods for Open IE, and show what improvements are achievable without using the costly deep syntactic parsing. 2. Grammar Formalisms for Information Extraction The heuristic or rule based approach to Open IE detects a relation in a text in two steps: first, a relation p ...
... boundaries for POS tag-based methods for Open IE, and show what improvements are achievable without using the costly deep syntactic parsing. 2. Grammar Formalisms for Information Extraction The heuristic or rule based approach to Open IE detects a relation in a text in two steps: first, a relation p ...
33 HOW COMPLEMENTS DIFFER FROM ADJUNCTS IN PERSIAN
... predicative complement of subject (henceforth PCo and PCs respectively), and the non-verbal element of a compound verb. All these functions are expressed by NPs. For Bateni, any phrase beginning with a preposition is regarded as an AdvP which functions as an adjunct. He adds that NPs can also functi ...
... predicative complement of subject (henceforth PCo and PCs respectively), and the non-verbal element of a compound verb. All these functions are expressed by NPs. For Bateni, any phrase beginning with a preposition is regarded as an AdvP which functions as an adjunct. He adds that NPs can also functi ...
Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds
... two phenomena have been traditionally been described separately, the differences between them are ultimately shallow. This paper will argue, taking an extended version of Construction Morphology as a framework, that Hmong elaborate expressions are instances of the same construction as coordinate com ...
... two phenomena have been traditionally been described separately, the differences between them are ultimately shallow. This paper will argue, taking an extended version of Construction Morphology as a framework, that Hmong elaborate expressions are instances of the same construction as coordinate com ...
Dependency grammar
Dependency grammar (DG) is a class of modern syntactic theories that are all based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the constituency relation) and that can be traced back primarily to the work of Lucien Tesnière. Dependency is the notion that linguistic units, e.g. words, are connected to each other by directed links. The (finite) verb is taken to be the structural center of clause structure. All other syntactic units (words) are either directly or indirectly connected to the verb in terms of the directed links, which are called dependencies. DGs are distinct from phrase structure grammars (constituency grammars), since DGs lack phrasal nodes - although they acknowledge phrases. Structure is determined by the relation between a word (a head) and its dependents. Dependency structures are flatter than constituency structures in part because they lack a finite verb phrase constituent, and they are thus well suited for the analysis of languages with free word order, such as Czech, Turkish, and Warlpiri.