Cross-linguistic priming of syntactic hierarchical
... Echeverria, & Bosch, 2005, among many others). In contrast to the abundance of studies on language (non-)selectivity in lexical processing, researchers interested in the syntactic level of language processing have been less active in investigating bilinguals’ organization of linguistic knowledge. Th ...
... Echeverria, & Bosch, 2005, among many others). In contrast to the abundance of studies on language (non-)selectivity in lexical processing, researchers interested in the syntactic level of language processing have been less active in investigating bilinguals’ organization of linguistic knowledge. Th ...
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... Something that is fast is either struck firmly or moving quickly. A door that is bolted is secure, but a horse that has bolted has taken off. If you wind up a meeting you finish it; if you wind up a watch, you start it. To ravish means to rape, but equally it means to enrapture. Quinquennial describ ...
... Something that is fast is either struck firmly or moving quickly. A door that is bolted is secure, but a horse that has bolted has taken off. If you wind up a meeting you finish it; if you wind up a watch, you start it. To ravish means to rape, but equally it means to enrapture. Quinquennial describ ...
Baldwin, Timothy and Su Nam Kim (2010) Multiword Expressions, in
... The semantics of blow hot and cold (“constantly change opinion”), for example, is partially predictable from blow (“move” and hence “change”), but not as immediately from hot and cold . There are also cases where the meanings of the parts are transparently inherited but there is additional semantic ...
... The semantics of blow hot and cold (“constantly change opinion”), for example, is partially predictable from blow (“move” and hence “change”), but not as immediately from hot and cold . There are also cases where the meanings of the parts are transparently inherited but there is additional semantic ...
A Deterministic Parser With Broad Coverage
... indicates that the argument structure of the NP is not yet complete (it lacks a complement). Observe that in the case above the lookahcad buffer can contain a proper triggering pattern, since at the time "a book" must be marked, the first cell in the buffer will contain "appeared", the second, "yest ...
... indicates that the argument structure of the NP is not yet complete (it lacks a complement). Observe that in the case above the lookahcad buffer can contain a proper triggering pattern, since at the time "a book" must be marked, the first cell in the buffer will contain "appeared", the second, "yest ...
Inalienable Possession and Locative Aspect
... (25) i. Is NP 2 included in NP l ? If so, then (1) or (2). ii. Is V + NP selfdoable? If so, (1); otherwise, (2). (1) is acceptable because la main gives the impression of raising itself independently, while (2) is used because a hand cannot take itself independently. 3.1.2 A conceptual grammar suppo ...
... (25) i. Is NP 2 included in NP l ? If so, then (1) or (2). ii. Is V + NP selfdoable? If so, (1); otherwise, (2). (1) is acceptable because la main gives the impression of raising itself independently, while (2) is used because a hand cannot take itself independently. 3.1.2 A conceptual grammar suppo ...
Full proceedings volume - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... asserted, and therefore, do not fall under negation; cf. discussion in Hajičova (1973). Thus, in the utterances where the universal quantifier all and the matrix verb are in the topic, negation has scope over the remaining constituent, usually the verbal adjunct: (14) I have not said all this ǁ [in ...
... asserted, and therefore, do not fall under negation; cf. discussion in Hajičova (1973). Thus, in the utterances where the universal quantifier all and the matrix verb are in the topic, negation has scope over the remaining constituent, usually the verbal adjunct: (14) I have not said all this ǁ [in ...
Here - Ohlone - University of California, Santa Cruz
... and its own subject position is occupied by the pronoun é (accusative in form as always in such cases). That pronoun may be, but need not be, postposed. It is partially postposed in (a) and (b)—to a position following the participle but preceding its complement. Such examples are extremely commo ...
... and its own subject position is occupied by the pronoun é (accusative in form as always in such cases). That pronoun may be, but need not be, postposed. It is partially postposed in (a) and (b)—to a position following the participle but preceding its complement. Such examples are extremely commo ...
New perspectives on Contrastive Grammar, Applied Linguistics and
... inferentially. Thus, a level 2 or implicational module accounts for aspects of linguistic communication that have traditionally been handled in connection with implicature theory. There is a level 3 or illocutionary module dealing with traditional illocutionary force. Finally, a level 4 or discourse ...
... inferentially. Thus, a level 2 or implicational module accounts for aspects of linguistic communication that have traditionally been handled in connection with implicature theory. There is a level 3 or illocutionary module dealing with traditional illocutionary force. Finally, a level 4 or discourse ...
Missing arguments in earlier English clause structures
... proposal of Rizzi (1986: 508-509), it is tenable. According to him there are two ways in which the theta roles assigned by a predicate can be saturated; (i) syntactically , or (ii) lexically. If a certain theta role is syntactically saturated, it is projected into the syntactic structure as an expli ...
... proposal of Rizzi (1986: 508-509), it is tenable. According to him there are two ways in which the theta roles assigned by a predicate can be saturated; (i) syntactically , or (ii) lexically. If a certain theta role is syntactically saturated, it is projected into the syntactic structure as an expli ...
hierarchical lexical structure and interpretive mapping in machine
... tion that holds between mapping types and mapping patterns in disjunctive, since a mapping type contains different types of alternations, only one of which can be active at a given time for a particular verb. As a result, inheritance is performed in a different manner at these two levels in the hier ...
... tion that holds between mapping types and mapping patterns in disjunctive, since a mapping type contains different types of alternations, only one of which can be active at a given time for a particular verb. As a result, inheritance is performed in a different manner at these two levels in the hier ...
gems: a model of sentence production
... although the order of activation may not coincide with the external sequential order of the words in the actual sentence. When executed the entries' procedures (a) extract the sentence's meaning from the knowledge store, (b) lexicalize this meaning with the ...
... although the order of activation may not coincide with the external sequential order of the words in the actual sentence. When executed the entries' procedures (a) extract the sentence's meaning from the knowledge store, (b) lexicalize this meaning with the ...
(Syntactic) Lexicon and Syntax: Insertion Conditions for Derivational
... of non-overt movements into COMP: *the books sending on toJohn are expensive. 5 I concluded that these "non-NP" forms are VP's immediately dominated neither by S nor by NP - i.e., that these are "bare VP's". This analysis led to a couple of puzzling questions, however, within the framework I develop ...
... of non-overt movements into COMP: *the books sending on toJohn are expensive. 5 I concluded that these "non-NP" forms are VP's immediately dominated neither by S nor by NP - i.e., that these are "bare VP's". This analysis led to a couple of puzzling questions, however, within the framework I develop ...
Unifying everything: Some remarks on simpler syntax, construction
... In this discussion note I want to compare several current linguistic theories: at the extreme ends of the current views are minimalist theories, which restrict themselves to the binary branching operations Move and Merge (Chomsky 2008, 2013), and simpler syntax (Culicover & Jackendoff 2005), which a ...
... In this discussion note I want to compare several current linguistic theories: at the extreme ends of the current views are minimalist theories, which restrict themselves to the binary branching operations Move and Merge (Chomsky 2008, 2013), and simpler syntax (Culicover & Jackendoff 2005), which a ...
Structural Parsing
... The auxiliary verb “can” modifies the whole sentence. In the sentence graph this is expressed with a POS-frame. We have discussed frame words like BE-frame, NEC-frame, NOT-frame, OR-frame, IF-THEN-frame or POS-frame in [6]. The auxiliary verb “ have ” is essentially “be with ”. The BE-frame can be s ...
... The auxiliary verb “can” modifies the whole sentence. In the sentence graph this is expressed with a POS-frame. We have discussed frame words like BE-frame, NEC-frame, NOT-frame, OR-frame, IF-THEN-frame or POS-frame in [6]. The auxiliary verb “ have ” is essentially “be with ”. The BE-frame can be s ...
Dependency in Linguistic Description
... major pauses, constitutes a prosodic unit and its internal structure is governed by linguistic rules; it is also perceived by speakers as 'something that exists in the language.' An utterance is a wordform, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence. 2. Wordform: a minimal utterance [= not containing other u ...
... major pauses, constitutes a prosodic unit and its internal structure is governed by linguistic rules; it is also perceived by speakers as 'something that exists in the language.' An utterance is a wordform, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence. 2. Wordform: a minimal utterance [= not containing other u ...
Do sentences have tense?
... Predicates express the distinctiveness of lexical and pronominal meanings. They are pointers to the semantics. They are projected from the lexicon to f-structure and to semantic structure (σ-structure). Gender features support grammatical and anaphoric agreement. They are projected from morphology a ...
... Predicates express the distinctiveness of lexical and pronominal meanings. They are pointers to the semantics. They are projected from the lexicon to f-structure and to semantic structure (σ-structure). Gender features support grammatical and anaphoric agreement. They are projected from morphology a ...
pages 213–231 - Stanford University
... In this paper we add to a growing body of evidence which shows that noun plus copula is indeed a lexically-formed verb (see especially Kim et al. (2004)), despite the apparent evidence in favor of a clitic analysis. A fully lexical account can nevertheless allow that the N which hosts the copula can ...
... In this paper we add to a growing body of evidence which shows that noun plus copula is indeed a lexically-formed verb (see especially Kim et al. (2004)), despite the apparent evidence in favor of a clitic analysis. A fully lexical account can nevertheless allow that the N which hosts the copula can ...
Lexicalising a robust parser grammar using the WWW
... assign linguistic structures to text sentences and are used with some success in various applications, such as information extraction, question answering systems, word sense disambiguation, etc. Most of them are reported to have good accuracy, sometimes above 90% precision in the recognition of some ...
... assign linguistic structures to text sentences and are used with some success in various applications, such as information extraction, question answering systems, word sense disambiguation, etc. Most of them are reported to have good accuracy, sometimes above 90% precision in the recognition of some ...
Introducing probabilistic information in Constraint Grammar
... To address these issues, our group at the University of Southern Denmark, in cooperation and co-financing with GrammarSoft, designed and programmed a statistical module for GrammarSoft's open source CG rule compiler, allowing the use of numerical frequency tags in parallel with, and linked to, morph ...
... To address these issues, our group at the University of Southern Denmark, in cooperation and co-financing with GrammarSoft, designed and programmed a statistical module for GrammarSoft's open source CG rule compiler, allowing the use of numerical frequency tags in parallel with, and linked to, morph ...
An Incremental Proceduml Grammar for Sentence Formulation GERARD KEMPEN
... basic because they are implied by the previous ones. We have assumed that the order of conceptual fragments delivered by the conceptualizer does not depend on the order of the corresponding syntactic fragments. With the possible exception of languages with extremely flexible word order, grammar rule ...
... basic because they are implied by the previous ones. We have assumed that the order of conceptual fragments delivered by the conceptualizer does not depend on the order of the corresponding syntactic fragments. With the possible exception of languages with extremely flexible word order, grammar rule ...
An Incremental Procedural Grammar for Sentence Formulation
... basic because they are implied by the previous ones. We have assumed that the order of conceptual fragments delivered by the conceptualizer does not depend on the order of the corresponding syntactic fragments. With the possible exception of languages with extremely flexible word order, grammar rule ...
... basic because they are implied by the previous ones. We have assumed that the order of conceptual fragments delivered by the conceptualizer does not depend on the order of the corresponding syntactic fragments. With the possible exception of languages with extremely flexible word order, grammar rule ...
separable complex verbs in Dutch
... incorporation, which move X°-categories (both lexical morphemes and bound morphemes) and adjoin them to other words, thereby creating complex words in surface structure, whereas Di Sciullo & Williams want to exclude such analyses. I will focus here on the other side of the coin, namely the claim tha ...
... incorporation, which move X°-categories (both lexical morphemes and bound morphemes) and adjoin them to other words, thereby creating complex words in surface structure, whereas Di Sciullo & Williams want to exclude such analyses. I will focus here on the other side of the coin, namely the claim tha ...
SITUATION SEMANTICS AND MACHINE TRANSLATION
... anchored before an interpretation can be determined. Speaker connections are concerned with the linguistic attunement that must be shared by the speaker and hearer for effective communication. The meaning relation can therefore be restated in terms of a discourse situation, d, speaker connections, c ...
... anchored before an interpretation can be determined. Speaker connections are concerned with the linguistic attunement that must be shared by the speaker and hearer for effective communication. The meaning relation can therefore be restated in terms of a discourse situation, d, speaker connections, c ...
Lexical Functional Grammar Abstract 1 LFG`s syntactic structures
... different aspects of linguistic structure are related. As the name implies, the theory is lexical: the lexicon is richly structured, with lexical relations rather than transformations or operations on phrase structure trees as a means of capturing linguistic generalizations. It is also functional: g ...
... different aspects of linguistic structure are related. As the name implies, the theory is lexical: the lexicon is richly structured, with lexical relations rather than transformations or operations on phrase structure trees as a means of capturing linguistic generalizations. It is also functional: g ...
The (re-)emergence of representationalism in semantics Ruth Kempson
... 1.1 The new Chomskian methodology The Chomskian break-through in the exploration of grammars of natural language came from extending the methodology of grammar-writing for the familiar logics of propositional and predicate calculus to natural language. In these “formal languages”, constructed to en ...
... 1.1 The new Chomskian methodology The Chomskian break-through in the exploration of grammars of natural language came from extending the methodology of grammar-writing for the familiar logics of propositional and predicate calculus to natural language. In these “formal languages”, constructed to en ...