Arthur Holmer
... Wenzlaff & Clahsen (2004) argue that Tense and Agreement (following Chomsky 2000) are located in one syntactic node (T), and that the dissociations depend on the fact that Tense values are inherently underspecified (Tense Underspecification Hypothesis: TUH). A reason for this underspecification woul ...
... Wenzlaff & Clahsen (2004) argue that Tense and Agreement (following Chomsky 2000) are located in one syntactic node (T), and that the dissociations depend on the fact that Tense values are inherently underspecified (Tense Underspecification Hypothesis: TUH). A reason for this underspecification woul ...
Slides
... • The grammaticality of a syntactic structure is not dependent on meaning. • Native speakers share intuitions about even nonsensical sentences. ...
... • The grammaticality of a syntactic structure is not dependent on meaning. • Native speakers share intuitions about even nonsensical sentences. ...
One Word order ? : conceptual syntagmatics, linguistic imperialism
... rod for both his supporters and detractors. In it, Phillipson defines English linguistic imperialism as a system through which “the dominance of English is asserted and maintained by the establishment and continuous reconstitution of structural and cultural inequalities between English and other lan ...
... rod for both his supporters and detractors. In it, Phillipson defines English linguistic imperialism as a system through which “the dominance of English is asserted and maintained by the establishment and continuous reconstitution of structural and cultural inequalities between English and other lan ...
The Meaning of Syntactic Dependencies
... dependency is elaborated by a lexical unit, then we obtain a more specific pattern. This is what we call a "lexico-syntactic pattern". In the linguistic litterature (for instance, in Construction Grammar), there is a great variety of syntactic and lexico-syntactic patterns. Here, we are only interes ...
... dependency is elaborated by a lexical unit, then we obtain a more specific pattern. This is what we call a "lexico-syntactic pattern". In the linguistic litterature (for instance, in Construction Grammar), there is a great variety of syntactic and lexico-syntactic patterns. Here, we are only interes ...
Design Principles for a Spanish Treebank
... There is an open discussion about the annotation scheme to be assumed when building a treebank. On one hand, some papers claim that dependency annotation is more suitable if it is free-word-order language ([11], [14], [28]), while others make their choice on the basis of the application required [30 ...
... There is an open discussion about the annotation scheme to be assumed when building a treebank. On one hand, some papers claim that dependency annotation is more suitable if it is free-word-order language ([11], [14], [28]), while others make their choice on the basis of the application required [30 ...
chapter ii - Institutional Repository of IAIN Tulungagung
... capacity to be applied more than once in generating a structure. For example, we can have one prepositional phrase describing location (on the table) in the sentence The gun was on the table. We can also repeat this type of phrase, using different words (near the window), for as long as the sentence ...
... capacity to be applied more than once in generating a structure. For example, we can have one prepositional phrase describing location (on the table) in the sentence The gun was on the table. We can also repeat this type of phrase, using different words (near the window), for as long as the sentence ...
LEXICAL AND FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION IN SYNTAX: A
... between specific tones or tone contours and different information structure being marked, i.e. the fact that e.g. in English H* Pitch Accent, and not L*, marks Focus whereas the tonal contour L+H*L-H%, and not some other, marks Contrastive Topic. Although the association between sound (a tone or ton ...
... between specific tones or tone contours and different information structure being marked, i.e. the fact that e.g. in English H* Pitch Accent, and not L*, marks Focus whereas the tonal contour L+H*L-H%, and not some other, marks Contrastive Topic. Although the association between sound (a tone or ton ...
Semantic memory for syntactic disambiguation
... and access information that would help identify, when confronted with an incoming -ing word, when to proceed with one parse versus the other. In order to process copula+gerund constructions, though, we need to rely on further information. First, we converted all of the copula+gerund corpus examples ...
... and access information that would help identify, when confronted with an incoming -ing word, when to proceed with one parse versus the other. In order to process copula+gerund constructions, though, we need to rely on further information. First, we converted all of the copula+gerund corpus examples ...
PowerPoint Presentation - META-Net
... • Lexical rules apply to idiom elementary trees as usual • Lexical rules can be restricted to apply to certain elementary trees • Recognition and semantics: same as with single word elementary trees ...
... • Lexical rules apply to idiom elementary trees as usual • Lexical rules can be restricted to apply to certain elementary trees • Recognition and semantics: same as with single word elementary trees ...
Vol.2 No.1.11
... form, the parsing problem involves the definition of an algorithm that maps any input sentence to its associated syntactic tree structure. Parsing natural language text is much more difficult. One reason is that grammars for natural languages are often complex, ambiguous, and ...
... form, the parsing problem involves the definition of an algorithm that maps any input sentence to its associated syntactic tree structure. Parsing natural language text is much more difficult. One reason is that grammars for natural languages are often complex, ambiguous, and ...
1 Construction Morphology and the Parallel Architecture of grammar
... building syllables and higher-level prosodic constituents. Morphological and syntactic structure (morpho-syntactic structure, for short) is governed by the rules of syntax and morphology. Conceptual structure is specified by the constraints and regularities of conceptual representations. The double ...
... building syllables and higher-level prosodic constituents. Morphological and syntactic structure (morpho-syntactic structure, for short) is governed by the rules of syntax and morphology. Conceptual structure is specified by the constraints and regularities of conceptual representations. The double ...
Semantics and Pragmatics - School of Computer Science, University
... types, produce constituents (or whole sentences) of particular types, where the resulting types are dependent only on the rule and the constituents given to it. ...
... types, produce constituents (or whole sentences) of particular types, where the resulting types are dependent only on the rule and the constituents given to it. ...
Conversational Syntax Requirements
... parser to interpolate a missing word, or possibly two. This is very complex to implement but dramatically improves reliability in high perplexity systems such as needed for conversation. Conclusion Conversational concurrent applications require sharing a common syntactic grammar. Each sentence must ...
... parser to interpolate a missing word, or possibly two. This is very complex to implement but dramatically improves reliability in high perplexity systems such as needed for conversation. Conclusion Conversational concurrent applications require sharing a common syntactic grammar. Each sentence must ...
Chapter _10
... Notes Chapter 10: Understanding the Structure of Sentences (Read the notes, especially Section I before reading the chapter). These notes are not a summary of your textbook readings. I focus here on topics, concepts, or theories that are complex or may be confusing. My goal is to clarify some issues ...
... Notes Chapter 10: Understanding the Structure of Sentences (Read the notes, especially Section I before reading the chapter). These notes are not a summary of your textbook readings. I focus here on topics, concepts, or theories that are complex or may be confusing. My goal is to clarify some issues ...
Customizing the XTAG System for Efficient Grammar
... system (The XTAG-Group, 1998): (1) adequate linguistic description of the inflections and (2) efficient lexicon development. From a linguistic point of view, describing a grammar of a language is to construct rules that generate sentences in the language at a formal level. From an implementational p ...
... system (The XTAG-Group, 1998): (1) adequate linguistic description of the inflections and (2) efficient lexicon development. From a linguistic point of view, describing a grammar of a language is to construct rules that generate sentences in the language at a formal level. From an implementational p ...
FreDist : Automatic construction of distributional thesauri for
... Once the corpus had been automatically annotated with lemmas, POS tags, and syntactic dependency relations between words, we extracted context relations. Although the base lexical term used in distributional lexical methods is often the inflected form or the lemma, we chose to use a base lexical ter ...
... Once the corpus had been automatically annotated with lemmas, POS tags, and syntactic dependency relations between words, we extracted context relations. Although the base lexical term used in distributional lexical methods is often the inflected form or the lemma, we chose to use a base lexical ter ...
Theoretical Grammar
... grammatical forms are expressed with the help of words (will do). However, we cannot speak of languages as purely synthetic or analytic – the English language (Modern English) possesses analytical forms as prevailing, while in the Ukrainian language synthetic devices are dominant. In the process of ...
... grammatical forms are expressed with the help of words (will do). However, we cannot speak of languages as purely synthetic or analytic – the English language (Modern English) possesses analytical forms as prevailing, while in the Ukrainian language synthetic devices are dominant. In the process of ...
An Overview of Lexical Semantics
... a great deal of their philosophical research around a number of general questions regarding the nature of meanings, how words might come to have meanings, the relationship between words and their worldly denotations, etc. Although it is a subfield of linguistics, lexical semantics can be viewed as a ...
... a great deal of their philosophical research around a number of general questions regarding the nature of meanings, how words might come to have meanings, the relationship between words and their worldly denotations, etc. Although it is a subfield of linguistics, lexical semantics can be viewed as a ...
Morpho-syntactic Lexical Generalization for CCG
... case above, making our techniques applicable. There has been significant related work that influenced the design of our morpho-syntactic grammars. This includes linguistics studies of relational nouns (Partee and Borschev, 1998; de Bruin and Scha, 1988), Davidsonian events (Davidson, 1967), parsing ...
... case above, making our techniques applicable. There has been significant related work that influenced the design of our morpho-syntactic grammars. This includes linguistics studies of relational nouns (Partee and Borschev, 1998; de Bruin and Scha, 1988), Davidsonian events (Davidson, 1967), parsing ...
Unidirectional flexibility and the noun–verb distinction
... and adverb), it is not uncommon for languages to distinguish fewer. In many such cases, a language with a reduced parts-of-speech inventory conflates two or more major classes, creating a flexible part of speech that fills a variety of syntactic roles. One of the most contentious issues that falls o ...
... and adverb), it is not uncommon for languages to distinguish fewer. In many such cases, a language with a reduced parts-of-speech inventory conflates two or more major classes, creating a flexible part of speech that fills a variety of syntactic roles. One of the most contentious issues that falls o ...
Sentence Structure
... and those, and “counting words” such as each and every. Another less familiar category is auxiliary (Aux), which includes the verbs have, had, be, was, and were, and the modals may, might, can, could, must, shall, should, will, and would. Aux and Det are functional categories, so called because thei ...
... and those, and “counting words” such as each and every. Another less familiar category is auxiliary (Aux), which includes the verbs have, had, be, was, and were, and the modals may, might, can, could, must, shall, should, will, and would. Aux and Det are functional categories, so called because thei ...
The ROLES of EXPRESSION and REPRESENTATION in
... mapped onto linguistic strings quite di erently in English and Turkish. The two languages segment the linguistic string into words in radically di erent ways. The criteria for being a word-level unit are empirically relatively clear. For example in Turkish, all the vowels within a word must harmoniz ...
... mapped onto linguistic strings quite di erently in English and Turkish. The two languages segment the linguistic string into words in radically di erent ways. The criteria for being a word-level unit are empirically relatively clear. For example in Turkish, all the vowels within a word must harmoniz ...
Doyle
... the ontology, it builds a graph of concept relations using: 1. Nearness in sentence 2. IS_A Relationships ...
... the ontology, it builds a graph of concept relations using: 1. Nearness in sentence 2. IS_A Relationships ...
a proposal for lexical disambiguation
... fact, WordNet contains only nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Adverbs are omitted on the assumption that most of them duplicate adjectives; the relatively small set of English function words is omitted on the assumption that they are stored separately as part of the syntactic component. The most ambitio ...
... fact, WordNet contains only nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Adverbs are omitted on the assumption that most of them duplicate adjectives; the relatively small set of English function words is omitted on the assumption that they are stored separately as part of the syntactic component. The most ambitio ...
Parallel Syntactic Annotation of Multiple Languages
... We discuss and exemplify these cases in turn. Many syntactic differences between languages are removed by removing word order and function words. For example, English forms the future tense with an auxiliary, while Spanish has an inflectional morpheme, and also a postposed subject: (1) llegará arri ...
... We discuss and exemplify these cases in turn. Many syntactic differences between languages are removed by removing word order and function words. For example, English forms the future tense with an auxiliary, while Spanish has an inflectional morpheme, and also a postposed subject: (1) llegará arri ...