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].. ...
valency - Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
... – the verb prescribes the form of its actant(s) ...
... – the verb prescribes the form of its actant(s) ...
TREE DIAGRAM (2)
... For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers. what does “thick legs and large drawers” refer to? The desk or the lady? ...
... For sale: an antique desk suitable for lady with thick legs and large drawers. what does “thick legs and large drawers” refer to? The desk or the lady? ...
The Encoding Grammar and Syntax
... property of a lexical unit. Nevertheless, when lexical units present themselves to syntax during the encoding procedure, they do not exhibit all their semantic features but only those that are syntactically relevant, i.e. their syntactic slots. Thus it is possible to establish large classes of verbs ...
... property of a lexical unit. Nevertheless, when lexical units present themselves to syntax during the encoding procedure, they do not exhibit all their semantic features but only those that are syntactically relevant, i.e. their syntactic slots. Thus it is possible to establish large classes of verbs ...
Syntax 1
... • Basic ideas related to syntax • Contituency Groups of words may behave as a single unit or phrase: a constituent. Exemple: Noun phrase • Grammatical relations Formalization of ideas from traditional grammar. Example: subject and object • Subcategorization and dependency relations Relations between ...
... • Basic ideas related to syntax • Contituency Groups of words may behave as a single unit or phrase: a constituent. Exemple: Noun phrase • Grammatical relations Formalization of ideas from traditional grammar. Example: subject and object • Subcategorization and dependency relations Relations between ...
Syntax
... The number of words in a language is finite These words must be learned one by one Sentences, however, are infinite in number, and therefore, unlike words, are not learned individually. ...
... The number of words in a language is finite These words must be learned one by one Sentences, however, are infinite in number, and therefore, unlike words, are not learned individually. ...
Syntax
... What we have proven is that constituents with different structures can have the same functions because they can be used in the same position in a sentence. This means that they belong to the same category, and since some constituents may involve combinations of more than one word, these categories a ...
... What we have proven is that constituents with different structures can have the same functions because they can be used in the same position in a sentence. This means that they belong to the same category, and since some constituents may involve combinations of more than one word, these categories a ...
lab_parsing
... In the lectures we only discussed one formalism for describing grammars: Context Free Grammar (CFG). Dependency grammar is another formalism to achieve the same goal which developed at about the same time as CFG and has always been very popular in Computational Linguistics. The basic idea of Depende ...
... In the lectures we only discussed one formalism for describing grammars: Context Free Grammar (CFG). Dependency grammar is another formalism to achieve the same goal which developed at about the same time as CFG and has always been very popular in Computational Linguistics. The basic idea of Depende ...
Lucien Tesnière
Lucien Tesnière (French: [lysjɛ̃ tɛnjɛʁ]; May 13, 1893 – December 6, 1954) was a prominent and influential French linguist. He was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan on May 13, 1893. As a professor in Strasbourg (1924), and later in Montpellier (1937), he published many papers and books on Slavic languages. However, his importance in the history of linguistics is based mainly on his development of an approach to the syntax of natural languages that would become known as dependency grammar. He presented his theory in his book Éléments de syntaxe structurale (Elements of Structural Syntax), published posthumously in 1959. In the book he proposes a sophisticated formalization of syntactic structures, supported by many examples from a diversity of languages. Tesnière died in Montpellier on December 6, 1954.Many central concepts that the modern study of syntax takes for granted were developed and presented in Tesnière's book (i.e. in the Éléments). For instance, Tesnière developed the concept of valency in detail, and the primary distinction between arguments (actants) and adjuncts (circumstants, French circonstants), which most if not all theories of syntax now acknowledge and build on, was central to Tesnière's understanding. Tesnière also argued vehemently that syntax is autonomous from morphology and semantics. This stance is similar to generative grammar, which takes syntax to be a separate component of the human faculty for language.