Inner aspect and telicity
... derived from primitive predicates and the structural representation in which they appear. Dynamicity that characterizes processes is represented by a particular function that maps from times to properties, and telicity is represented as a result of concatenation of one process and one state, under a ...
... derived from primitive predicates and the structural representation in which they appear. Dynamicity that characterizes processes is represented by a particular function that maps from times to properties, and telicity is represented as a result of concatenation of one process and one state, under a ...
54. Adverbs and adverbials
... Predicational adverbials can typically be characterized as supplying a gradable property on the verbal or sentential base. (By restricting predicational adverbials to those expressing gradable properties we exclude, e.g., form adjectives like rectangular, which do not appear in adverbial function.) ...
... Predicational adverbials can typically be characterized as supplying a gradable property on the verbal or sentential base. (By restricting predicational adverbials to those expressing gradable properties we exclude, e.g., form adjectives like rectangular, which do not appear in adverbial function.) ...
The syntax of French adverbs without functional projections*
... well as before the verb. We propose an alternative view of adverb distribution, focusing on French adverbs. Like Ernst (1998, 2002), we observe that the hierarchy is too rigid to account for the complexity of the data concerning scope and adverb ordering. In addition, we show that an analysis based ...
... well as before the verb. We propose an alternative view of adverb distribution, focusing on French adverbs. Like Ernst (1998, 2002), we observe that the hierarchy is too rigid to account for the complexity of the data concerning scope and adverb ordering. In addition, we show that an analysis based ...
CLITICS IN FOUR DIALECTS OF MODERN GREEK: A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT
... discussed, arguing that the availability of Clitic Doubling in a given language depends on whether clitics in this language have lost their bottom restriction or not. Lastly, this thesis provides crucial evidence supporting the account given by Cann & Kempson (2008) and Chatzikyriakidis & Kempson (2 ...
... discussed, arguing that the availability of Clitic Doubling in a given language depends on whether clitics in this language have lost their bottom restriction or not. Lastly, this thesis provides crucial evidence supporting the account given by Cann & Kempson (2008) and Chatzikyriakidis & Kempson (2 ...
Clitics: An Introduction
... Pat is reading a book, they generally take the verb form is to form a constituent with a linguist or reading a book. There are no syntactic theories which would regard the subject noun phrase Pat and the verb is as forming a syntactic constituent (well, almost none). Yet in the forms with a cliticiz ...
... Pat is reading a book, they generally take the verb form is to form a constituent with a linguist or reading a book. There are no syntactic theories which would regard the subject noun phrase Pat and the verb is as forming a syntactic constituent (well, almost none). Yet in the forms with a cliticiz ...
The Syntax of Inner Aspect
... dissertation a more respectable study of inner aspect. I would also like to thank the faculty members at the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook. I have learned much about what it means to be a linguist from them. In particular, I would like to thank Marie Huffman for her continuous support fro ...
... dissertation a more respectable study of inner aspect. I would also like to thank the faculty members at the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook. I have learned much about what it means to be a linguist from them. In particular, I would like to thank Marie Huffman for her continuous support fro ...
Complex Word-Formation and the Morphology
... chapter can be seen as zooming in on one of his three generative components, namely the syntactic one. Section 1.2 provides some evidence for the separation of word syntax and phrasal syntax (which will be referred to as morphology and syntax, respectively) within the syntactic component. It will al ...
... chapter can be seen as zooming in on one of his three generative components, namely the syntactic one. Section 1.2 provides some evidence for the separation of word syntax and phrasal syntax (which will be referred to as morphology and syntax, respectively) within the syntactic component. It will al ...
Complex Word-Formation and the Morphology-Syntax Interface
... chapter can be seen as zooming in on one of his three generative components, namely the syntactic one. Section 1.2 provides some evidence for the separation of word syntax and phrasal syntax (which will be referred to as morphology and syntax, respectively) within the syntactic component. It will al ...
... chapter can be seen as zooming in on one of his three generative components, namely the syntactic one. Section 1.2 provides some evidence for the separation of word syntax and phrasal syntax (which will be referred to as morphology and syntax, respectively) within the syntactic component. It will al ...
Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English: an investigation... individual- and stage-level predicate hypothesis
... extension of a process already found in SE. In his study, Labov described another patterning in copula variation in AA VE, which we consider the inspiration for this work. In considering the distribution of the full, contracted, and null forms of the copula, Labov concluded that the copula is likely ...
... extension of a process already found in SE. In his study, Labov described another patterning in copula variation in AA VE, which we consider the inspiration for this work. In considering the distribution of the full, contracted, and null forms of the copula, Labov concluded that the copula is likely ...
Passive and passive-like constructions in English and Polish
... Therefore, there does not have to be direct correspondence between form and any individual property or any particular construction. In the case of passive-like constructions, which clearly overlap in both meaning and form, form-based classifications have proven to be particularly inadequate and hav ...
... Therefore, there does not have to be direct correspondence between form and any individual property or any particular construction. In the case of passive-like constructions, which clearly overlap in both meaning and form, form-based classifications have proven to be particularly inadequate and hav ...
Leísta Spanish and the Syntax of Clitic Doubling
... Sportiche 1993); accusative clitics are determiners (see Torrego 1988; Uriagereka 1988). The questions raised by Chapter 2 are: (1) How should dative-form accusative clitics in Leísta Spanish be analyzed? and (2) What is the internal structure of the direct object in a clitic doubling construction? ...
... Sportiche 1993); accusative clitics are determiners (see Torrego 1988; Uriagereka 1988). The questions raised by Chapter 2 are: (1) How should dative-form accusative clitics in Leísta Spanish be analyzed? and (2) What is the internal structure of the direct object in a clitic doubling construction? ...
Ling 390 - Intro to Linguistics
... clean].. 2.) The janitor wondered [if if the floor would stay clean 3.) The floor knew [that that it would not stay clean clean].. ...
... clean].. 2.) The janitor wondered [if if the floor would stay clean 3.) The floor knew [that that it would not stay clean clean].. ...
Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues By Toshio Ohori
... good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discuss some of them below in order to clarify my general theoretical outlook. The primary branching point for linguistic theory is the distinction b ...
... good care of. This granted, there still can be, and in fact are, several branching points in approaching the phenomena under investigation, and I will discuss some of them below in order to clarify my general theoretical outlook. The primary branching point for linguistic theory is the distinction b ...
Adverbs in Kenyang
... Advocates of this line of thought (Jackendoff 1972; Travis 1988, etc.) posit that various types of adverbs may select for propositions, speech acts or events, each of which interacts with syntactic principles to produce different adverbial behaviours. The analysis supposes that the nature of the syn ...
... Advocates of this line of thought (Jackendoff 1972; Travis 1988, etc.) posit that various types of adverbs may select for propositions, speech acts or events, each of which interacts with syntactic principles to produce different adverbial behaviours. The analysis supposes that the nature of the syn ...
Robust French syntax analysis : reconciling statistical methods and
... task of correcting Talismane’s syntax analysis of Wikipedia discussion pages. If I have taken an interest in computational linguistics, it is largely thanks to my family: my father Izzi, for transmitting to me his love for computers and algorithms; my mother Nili for transmitting to me her love for ...
... task of correcting Talismane’s syntax analysis of Wikipedia discussion pages. If I have taken an interest in computational linguistics, it is largely thanks to my family: my father Izzi, for transmitting to me his love for computers and algorithms; my mother Nili for transmitting to me her love for ...
An On-Line Computational Model of Human Sentence Interpretation
... to produce a high-level interpretation, to embed a linguistically motivated grammar, and to be compatible with psycholinguistic results on sentence processing. The model includes a theory of grammar called Construction-Based Interpretative Grammar (CIG) and an interpreter which uses the grammar to b ...
... to produce a high-level interpretation, to embed a linguistically motivated grammar, and to be compatible with psycholinguistic results on sentence processing. The model includes a theory of grammar called Construction-Based Interpretative Grammar (CIG) and an interpreter which uses the grammar to b ...
An On-line Computational Model of Human Sentence Interpretation
... “To parse a sentence is to relate it to a general description of a language” — Hays (1966) “If our goal as understanders is to extract a meaning from its language-encoded form, then the question we must ask is this: What is the best possible process to decode natural language?” — Riesbeck & Schank ( ...
... “To parse a sentence is to relate it to a general description of a language” — Hays (1966) “If our goal as understanders is to extract a meaning from its language-encoded form, then the question we must ask is this: What is the best possible process to decode natural language?” — Riesbeck & Schank ( ...
(Popescu), Roxana-Iuliana, Coordination and
... The grammatical correction rules are complementary to those related to the logical validity ones, all being meant to enable the intelligibility of the inter-communicable messages, but they do not overlap and they are not subordinated one to another. The proof is that there are people who express the ...
... The grammatical correction rules are complementary to those related to the logical validity ones, all being meant to enable the intelligibility of the inter-communicable messages, but they do not overlap and they are not subordinated one to another. The proof is that there are people who express the ...
A GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TSWANA ADVERBIAL by
... structures functioning as adverbials in Tswana, including particles, words, prepositional phrases and clauses. Tswana grammars in general often have little to say about the syntax of adverbials, in respect of, for instance, the propensity of Tswana adverbials for multiple occurrences in the same cla ...
... structures functioning as adverbials in Tswana, including particles, words, prepositional phrases and clauses. Tswana grammars in general often have little to say about the syntax of adverbials, in respect of, for instance, the propensity of Tswana adverbials for multiple occurrences in the same cla ...
Natural Language Generation
... wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog => canine, canid -- (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzl => carnivore -- (terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or fiv ...
... wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog => canine, canid -- (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzl => carnivore -- (terrestrial or aquatic flesh-eating mammal; terrestrial carnivores have four or fiv ...
fulltext - LOT Publications
... study and jogged my memory whenever I seemed to forget something important. I would also like to thank the deaf informants Alinda Höfer, Johan Ros, and Eric Stoel. Working with them was great. They have taught me many things about their language, even more than what is published here. Besides that, ...
... study and jogged my memory whenever I seemed to forget something important. I would also like to thank the deaf informants Alinda Höfer, Johan Ros, and Eric Stoel. Working with them was great. They have taught me many things about their language, even more than what is published here. Besides that, ...
Investigations of downward movement
... better or more balanced group of advisers, in terms of both academic expertise and advising style. Individually, they have pushed, guided, and encouraged me unfailingly throughout my time at McGill. If it were not for each of them, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. I thank Jon for showing me e ...
... better or more balanced group of advisers, in terms of both academic expertise and advising style. Individually, they have pushed, guided, and encouraged me unfailingly throughout my time at McGill. If it were not for each of them, you wouldn’t be reading this right now. I thank Jon for showing me e ...
A Broad-Coverage Model of Prediction in Human Sentence
... In evaluating the proposed model, this thesis also makes a methodological contribution. The design and evaluation of current sentence processing theories are usually based exclusively on experimental results from individual psycholinguistic experiments on specific linguistic structures. However, a t ...
... In evaluating the proposed model, this thesis also makes a methodological contribution. The design and evaluation of current sentence processing theories are usually based exclusively on experimental results from individual psycholinguistic experiments on specific linguistic structures. However, a t ...
Idioms, Anaphora, and Movement Diagnostics
... Get X’s goat is a phrasal idiom because the verb get does not have its literal meaning of acquisition in this idiom, nor does X’s goat refer to an animal. Just when combined, they produce the meaning ‘drive X to anger/annoyance’. The verb get does not have this meaning in any other context, nor does ...
... Get X’s goat is a phrasal idiom because the verb get does not have its literal meaning of acquisition in this idiom, nor does X’s goat refer to an animal. Just when combined, they produce the meaning ‘drive X to anger/annoyance’. The verb get does not have this meaning in any other context, nor does ...
On Word Definition in Children and Adults
... the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological category of the definiendum on the syntactic and semantic dimensions of the definition. Level of abstraction only explained significantly the differences in the components ...
... the hyperonym, and semantic content of the definiens). Findings for Study 1 indicated a generalized effect of the morphological category of the definiendum on the syntactic and semantic dimensions of the definition. Level of abstraction only explained significantly the differences in the components ...
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.