Inner aspect and telicity
... The best and worst moments of my dissertation journey have been shared with many people. The linguists among them are already mentioned above, but some I need to thank again. I thank them all for giving me their friendship, as deep and as rich as friendship can be. These are my paranymphs, František ...
... The best and worst moments of my dissertation journey have been shared with many people. The linguists among them are already mentioned above, but some I need to thank again. I thank them all for giving me their friendship, as deep and as rich as friendship can be. These are my paranymphs, František ...
CHAPTER FOUR: A CASE STUDY OF HAPPY, SAD, and UNHAPPY
... changes. In this case, the speaker may be unhappy because he is being forced to retire against his wishes, or he may be feeling worried or uneasy about his future after retiring. Similarly, if (h) is changed to All the children were unhappy because their vacation was over for another year, it sounds ...
... changes. In this case, the speaker may be unhappy because he is being forced to retire against his wishes, or he may be feeling worried or uneasy about his future after retiring. Similarly, if (h) is changed to All the children were unhappy because their vacation was over for another year, it sounds ...
Vocabulary - For the Teachers
... for subject–verb agreement; Use strong conclusions; Write directions; Use dashes correctly; Edit for pronoun-antecedent agreement; Proofread for tense agreement; Use commas in a series; Use apostrophes for possessives; Use quotation marks; Write personal letters; Use prepositional phrases; Use capit ...
... for subject–verb agreement; Use strong conclusions; Write directions; Use dashes correctly; Edit for pronoun-antecedent agreement; Proofread for tense agreement; Use commas in a series; Use apostrophes for possessives; Use quotation marks; Write personal letters; Use prepositional phrases; Use capit ...
my dissertation - Semantics Archive
... Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s content, rather than the semantic head’s. Second, its interpretation is heavily influenced by the discourse context in ways not seen with the EHRC. Third, unlike the head of an ...
... Relative Clause (EHRC) construction in several ways. First, unlike an EHRC, an IHRC’s content restricts the matrix clause’s content, rather than the semantic head’s. Second, its interpretation is heavily influenced by the discourse context in ways not seen with the EHRC. Third, unlike the head of an ...
54. Adverbs and adverbials
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
... The term “adverb” refers to a specific word class or lexical category and therefore contrasts with other word classes, such as nouns, adjectives, verbs, or prepositions. On the one hand, both adverbs and prepositions are uninflected, with adverbs differing from prepositions in having phrasal status. ...
A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND ARABIC ADVERBIAL
... adverbials as a separate word class. Approximately the same procedure of classification adopted in chapter four will be followed. Chapter seven contains a questionnaire which can serve as a productive basis for testing Arabic adverbial positions investigated in the previous chapter. Chapter eight in ...
... adverbials as a separate word class. Approximately the same procedure of classification adopted in chapter four will be followed. Chapter seven contains a questionnaire which can serve as a productive basis for testing Arabic adverbial positions investigated in the previous chapter. Chapter eight in ...
Oriented Adverbs - Universität Tübingen
... appearance in this double role, and it is the ultimate goal of the present work to elucidate this connection. The analysis of such alternations, however, is complicated by the fact that most x-predicates give rise to more than one adverbial use. It becomes an important question, then, whether these ...
... appearance in this double role, and it is the ultimate goal of the present work to elucidate this connection. The analysis of such alternations, however, is complicated by the fact that most x-predicates give rise to more than one adverbial use. It becomes an important question, then, whether these ...
A Diachronic Study on the Complementation Patterns of the Verb
... different kinds of constructions, e.g. ones beginning with noun phrases, various prepositions or toinfinitives, to follow it. In different contexts a different construction is chosen by the verb. This phenomenon is called complementation, and the items selected by the head are called complements. In ...
... different kinds of constructions, e.g. ones beginning with noun phrases, various prepositions or toinfinitives, to follow it. In different contexts a different construction is chosen by the verb. This phenomenon is called complementation, and the items selected by the head are called complements. In ...
Copyright by Ulf Hermjakob 1997 - Information Sciences Institute
... poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards more empirical techniques. We therefore propose a system for parsing and translating natural l ...
... poses a great challenge in natural language processing. The diculties with traditional approaches, which try to master the complexity of parse grammars with hand-crafted rules, have led to a trend towards more empirical techniques. We therefore propose a system for parsing and translating natural l ...
SIIM ORASMAA Explorations of the Problem of Broad
... we ought to consider the broader context of the phenomenon: What can be considered events? What are the possible difficulties encountered when one tries to establish an abstract definition of events at a more concrete level? We believe that philosophy can shed some light on these questions, and in t ...
... we ought to consider the broader context of the phenomenon: What can be considered events? What are the possible difficulties encountered when one tries to establish an abstract definition of events at a more concrete level? We believe that philosophy can shed some light on these questions, and in t ...
propositional logic
... is as follows: as the strongest connective, negation operates first, then disjunction and conjunction being as strong, when their mutual operating order must be shown by parentheses, and, at last, implication and equivalence being as strong together when parentheses are needed to show their mutual o ...
... is as follows: as the strongest connective, negation operates first, then disjunction and conjunction being as strong, when their mutual operating order must be shown by parentheses, and, at last, implication and equivalence being as strong together when parentheses are needed to show their mutual o ...
PPT_week_8
... Inflection versus derivation: two opposed views and a compromise The distinction between inflection and derivation is sharp Proponents of a dichotomy approach to the distinction between derivation and inflection usually emphasize relevance to syntax as the all-important criterion, and often also obl ...
... Inflection versus derivation: two opposed views and a compromise The distinction between inflection and derivation is sharp Proponents of a dichotomy approach to the distinction between derivation and inflection usually emphasize relevance to syntax as the all-important criterion, and often also obl ...
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 ( ...
An On-Line Computational Model of Human Sentence Interpretation
... Construction-Based Interpretative Grammar (CIG) and an interpreter which uses the grammar to build an interpretation for single sentences. An implementation of the interpreter has been built called Sal. Sal is an on-line interpreter, reading words one at a time and updating a partial interpretation ...
... Construction-Based Interpretative Grammar (CIG) and an interpreter which uses the grammar to build an interpretation for single sentences. An implementation of the interpreter has been built called Sal. Sal is an on-line interpreter, reading words one at a time and updating a partial interpretation ...
Tracking Point of View in Narrative
... 1:1He [Sandy] wanted to talk to Dennys. 1:2How were they going to be able to get home from this strange desert land into which they had been cast and which was heaven knew where in all the countless solar systems in all the countless galaxies? [L'Engle, Many Waters, p. 91] In this passage, the autho ...
... 1:1He [Sandy] wanted to talk to Dennys. 1:2How were they going to be able to get home from this strange desert land into which they had been cast and which was heaven knew where in all the countless solar systems in all the countless galaxies? [L'Engle, Many Waters, p. 91] In this passage, the autho ...
T.C. Mersin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü İngiliz Dili ve
... Modality is one of the three verbal categories, the other two of which are tense and aspect. In general modality is defined as the speaker’s attitude towards or assessment on the proposition expressed by the sentence. Although it is a verbal category, modality is closely related to the whole proposi ...
... Modality is one of the three verbal categories, the other two of which are tense and aspect. In general modality is defined as the speaker’s attitude towards or assessment on the proposition expressed by the sentence. Although it is a verbal category, modality is closely related to the whole proposi ...
The complete Proceedings of Depling 2011 as a single PDF file
... parsed into constituents, that is, supplied only with a “pure” phrase structure. The constituency approach, borrowed by computational linguists in the ex-USSR from the USA and UK, was then the ...
... parsed into constituents, that is, supplied only with a “pure” phrase structure. The constituency approach, borrowed by computational linguists in the ex-USSR from the USA and UK, was then the ...
Interlingua Based English Hindi Machine Translation and Language
... (LCS) and Wilk’s (1972) system, while CETA (Vauquois, 1975), KBMT (Carbonell and Tomita, 1987; (Nirenburg et al., 1992), TRANSLATOR (Nirenburg, et al., 1987), PIVOT (Muraki, 1987) and Atlas (Uchida, 1989) are the examples of the latter. The UNL falls into the latter category. Dorr (1993) describes h ...
... (LCS) and Wilk’s (1972) system, while CETA (Vauquois, 1975), KBMT (Carbonell and Tomita, 1987; (Nirenburg et al., 1992), TRANSLATOR (Nirenburg, et al., 1987), PIVOT (Muraki, 1987) and Atlas (Uchida, 1989) are the examples of the latter. The UNL falls into the latter category. Dorr (1993) describes h ...
Modes of Scalar Reversal in Japanese
... In (1) the usual ranking of Okinawa relative to Tokyo on the scale of coolness is reversed. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the conventional implicature (CI) and scalar properties of the Japanese adverbs yoppodo and kaette and clarify the modes of ‘reversal’ from the standpoint of the s ...
... In (1) the usual ranking of Okinawa relative to Tokyo on the scale of coolness is reversed. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the conventional implicature (CI) and scalar properties of the Japanese adverbs yoppodo and kaette and clarify the modes of ‘reversal’ from the standpoint of the s ...
The Liar Paradox: A Consistent and Semantically Closed Solution
... This thesis develops a new approach to the formal de nition of a truth predicate that allows a consistent, semantically closed de nition within classical logic. The approach is built on an analysis of structural properties of languages that make Liar Sentences and the paradoxical argument possible. ...
... This thesis develops a new approach to the formal de nition of a truth predicate that allows a consistent, semantically closed de nition within classical logic. The approach is built on an analysis of structural properties of languages that make Liar Sentences and the paradoxical argument possible. ...
GP Flash! - Grammar Punk
... “If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.” — Daniel Tammet ...
... “If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.” — Daniel Tammet ...
1 The Expression of Modality in Tlingit: A Paucity of - LingBuzz
... concerns what is necessary/possible in light of the rules or laws (or sometimes goals).3 Finally, a ‘circumstantial base is one like (3c), where the statement concerns what is a necessary/possible future in light of the current circumstances or facts. Given these assumptions regarding the general se ...
... concerns what is necessary/possible in light of the rules or laws (or sometimes goals).3 Finally, a ‘circumstantial base is one like (3c), where the statement concerns what is a necessary/possible future in light of the current circumstances or facts. Given these assumptions regarding the general se ...
Argumentation Mining: The Detection, Classification and Structure of
... it is necessary to identify the key components of the information in terms of their roles played within the argument. It describes these roles as: facts, warrant, backing, rebuttal and qualified claim. However, these roles are difficult to apply in free text argumentation where chains of reasoning a ...
... it is necessary to identify the key components of the information in terms of their roles played within the argument. It describes these roles as: facts, warrant, backing, rebuttal and qualified claim. However, these roles are difficult to apply in free text argumentation where chains of reasoning a ...
Contextually-Dependent Lexical Semantics
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
... valid conclusions; it might depend on a particular person’s model of the world, the context in which that inference takes place, or on his knowledge. The interpretation of the intransitive John drinks, for example, can depend on the discourse or situational context in which it is uttered, or might b ...
The development of a spatial technical writing
... bigger and are updated more frequently than ever before. As a result, people have to spend a huge amount of time and efforts to digest these technical documents. At present, traditional technical writing uses word-after-word narrative writing to produce technical documents. The resulting narrative d ...
... bigger and are updated more frequently than ever before. As a result, people have to spend a huge amount of time and efforts to digest these technical documents. At present, traditional technical writing uses word-after-word narrative writing to produce technical documents. The resulting narrative d ...