Ethnology: West Indies. - Comitas Institute for Anthropological Study
... the HLAS, Caribbean sociocultural anthropology continues to be eclectic in its theoretical and methodological approaches, certainly no single "school" or position appear to be dominant. The problem orientation of researchers seems to be increasingly, although in no way completely, focused on sociall ...
... the HLAS, Caribbean sociocultural anthropology continues to be eclectic in its theoretical and methodological approaches, certainly no single "school" or position appear to be dominant. The problem orientation of researchers seems to be increasingly, although in no way completely, focused on sociall ...
23 THE SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
... psychological cause (motive). Most of adjuncts expresses the meaning of place and time. For example, a sentence in the short story about science fiction, “She had a very happy life until she was murdered on her wedding day”. On her wedding day is a prepositional phrase that functions as adjunct beca ...
... psychological cause (motive). Most of adjuncts expresses the meaning of place and time. For example, a sentence in the short story about science fiction, “She had a very happy life until she was murdered on her wedding day”. On her wedding day is a prepositional phrase that functions as adjunct beca ...
pros sign 4-10
... the utterance must be interpreted and pronounced, its syntactic representation – the only level of representation admitted in a minimalist framework – must interface with the sensorimotor (SM) system on one side, and the cognitive–intentional (CI) one on the other. In the minimalist spirit, the utte ...
... the utterance must be interpreted and pronounced, its syntactic representation – the only level of representation admitted in a minimalist framework – must interface with the sensorimotor (SM) system on one side, and the cognitive–intentional (CI) one on the other. In the minimalist spirit, the utte ...
Morphology - publish.UP
... • If the internal structure of compounds and derivatives displays difficulties in the object language (in terms of identification of the morpheme boundaries or in terms of semantic compositionality), then do not indicate the internal structure of the word. ...
... • If the internal structure of compounds and derivatives displays difficulties in the object language (in terms of identification of the morpheme boundaries or in terms of semantic compositionality), then do not indicate the internal structure of the word. ...
Arguments for Pseudo-Resultative Predicates
... sense of being predicates of events. Rather, these ‘pseudo-resultative’ adjectives modify a created individual, along the lines of the proposal of Geuder (2000) for resultative adverbs. However, I propose that, in contrast with resultative adverbs as analyzed by Geuder, the individual argument modif ...
... sense of being predicates of events. Rather, these ‘pseudo-resultative’ adjectives modify a created individual, along the lines of the proposal of Geuder (2000) for resultative adverbs. However, I propose that, in contrast with resultative adverbs as analyzed by Geuder, the individual argument modif ...
Squibs and Discussions: Storing Logical Form in a Shared
... of the subtrees 6 and 22 using a VP rule. When the new constituent in the parse stack has the same state vertex on its left and right as the item already stored in the forest, the alternative parse is added to the list of possible children for the already stored constituent. Note that nodes which ne ...
... of the subtrees 6 and 22 using a VP rule. When the new constituent in the parse stack has the same state vertex on its left and right as the item already stored in the forest, the alternative parse is added to the list of possible children for the already stored constituent. Note that nodes which ne ...
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
... • Encode the “movement” information on the node of the tree ...
... • Encode the “movement” information on the node of the tree ...
GRS LX 700 Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
... optional—there is always a T there, but it can be an affix which will hop onto the verb and be pronounced as one word with the verb. • S: NP T (Neg) VP ...
... optional—there is always a T there, but it can be an affix which will hop onto the verb and be pronounced as one word with the verb. • S: NP T (Neg) VP ...
Polite Plurals and Adjective Agreement
... they are duals, referring to the two blades of the scissors, the two legs of the pants, or the two lenses of the eyeglasses. Indeed, the classification of such nouns is not entirely arbitrary, in the sense that the denotation is typically related in some way to the semantic notion of plurality. Engl ...
... they are duals, referring to the two blades of the scissors, the two legs of the pants, or the two lenses of the eyeglasses. Indeed, the classification of such nouns is not entirely arbitrary, in the sense that the denotation is typically related in some way to the semantic notion of plurality. Engl ...
linguistic features of pun, its typology and classification
... The significance of the present article lies in the factor according to which linguosemantic structure of pun is discussed from the point of general theoretical as well as contextual-pragmatic positions. I make an attempt to answer the following questions presented in the research: What is the typol ...
... The significance of the present article lies in the factor according to which linguosemantic structure of pun is discussed from the point of general theoretical as well as contextual-pragmatic positions. I make an attempt to answer the following questions presented in the research: What is the typol ...
Ineffability in Grammar
... amendments may be called for independently, and they concede that classic/standard OT does not handle ineffability convincingly. The addition of the control component implies that ineffability is accounted for by a component external to and ordered after the OT grammar, whereas bidirectionality exte ...
... amendments may be called for independently, and they concede that classic/standard OT does not handle ineffability convincingly. The addition of the control component implies that ineffability is accounted for by a component external to and ordered after the OT grammar, whereas bidirectionality exte ...
ppt - Columbia University
... particular): approach in which a linguistic theory enumerates all possible strings/structures in a language (=competence) • Chomskyan theories do not really use formal devices – they use CFG + informally defined transformations ...
... particular): approach in which a linguistic theory enumerates all possible strings/structures in a language (=competence) • Chomskyan theories do not really use formal devices – they use CFG + informally defined transformations ...
A Comparative Study of the Globally Ambiguous
... In the process of syntactic analyses, the elements in the linear structure must be arranged in a sequentially unique way, which means that one and the same element must be syntactically accepted; thus the order of the sentence decoding of the above-mentioned kind has to be processed one by one in or ...
... In the process of syntactic analyses, the elements in the linear structure must be arranged in a sequentially unique way, which means that one and the same element must be syntactically accepted; thus the order of the sentence decoding of the above-mentioned kind has to be processed one by one in or ...
DeQue: A Lexicon of Complex Prepositions and Conjunctions
... C2: Autonomous Lexical Units We require that the individual words composing a CPRE/CCONJ are autonomous lexical units. This means that they have their own distribution, cooccurring with other words in other contexts. Criterion C2 aims at excluding constructions that are surely not ambiguous. For ins ...
... C2: Autonomous Lexical Units We require that the individual words composing a CPRE/CCONJ are autonomous lexical units. This means that they have their own distribution, cooccurring with other words in other contexts. Criterion C2 aims at excluding constructions that are surely not ambiguous. For ins ...
Compositionality Part 1: Basic ideas and definitions
... Compositionality is not vague or mysterious We will establish the following: Given a language L with a ‘reasonable’ syntax that identifies parts of complex expressions, and given an assignment µ of semantic values (‘meanings’) to expressions, the question whether µ is compositional or not is not vag ...
... Compositionality is not vague or mysterious We will establish the following: Given a language L with a ‘reasonable’ syntax that identifies parts of complex expressions, and given an assignment µ of semantic values (‘meanings’) to expressions, the question whether µ is compositional or not is not vag ...
Grammatical Morphemes and Conceptual Structure in Discourse Processing DANIEL
... to sentence meaning only indirectly by signaling a small set of semantic relations between referents (Forster, 1979; Garrett, 1975). This approach to the open/closed-class distinction has drawn upon the framework provided by generative grammar, which organizes grammar around syntax and stresses the ...
... to sentence meaning only indirectly by signaling a small set of semantic relations between referents (Forster, 1979; Garrett, 1975). This approach to the open/closed-class distinction has drawn upon the framework provided by generative grammar, which organizes grammar around syntax and stresses the ...
hierarchical lexical structure and interpretive mapping in machine
... classes of verbs. That is, an argument which displays the same linking regularities as another argument might be assigned the same thematic role, and verbs which have the same transitivity alternations can be placed in the same class. Transitivity alternations in English are marked in various ways. ...
... classes of verbs. That is, an argument which displays the same linking regularities as another argument might be assigned the same thematic role, and verbs which have the same transitivity alternations can be placed in the same class. Transitivity alternations in English are marked in various ways. ...
Jennifer Arnold Thesis, spring 1992 Swarthmore College Dr.
... another given morpheme and the two fall into the same position relative to other'morphmes. Other than that, I prefer to leave the template as a guide to the organization of the verb, which can be expanded with future investigations. At any given point I will only present the template as it has thus ...
... another given morpheme and the two fall into the same position relative to other'morphmes. Other than that, I prefer to leave the template as a guide to the organization of the verb, which can be expanded with future investigations. At any given point I will only present the template as it has thus ...
Journal of Language Modelling 1
... people are brought into focus and their names enter common vocabularies. At the same time, large knowledge sources become publicly available, and some of them are constantly developed and updated by a collaborative effort of large numbers of users, Wikipedia being the most prominent example. The dat ...
... people are brought into focus and their names enter common vocabularies. At the same time, large knowledge sources become publicly available, and some of them are constantly developed and updated by a collaborative effort of large numbers of users, Wikipedia being the most prominent example. The dat ...
revisiting agreement paradigms: predicative
... if not both (cf. Napoli, 1993: 271-273). According to Julien (2007: 1-2), “the atoms of syntax are morphemes, not entire words” and therefore “transformations operating on these atoms can have both morphological and syntactic effects”. However, she claims that “there is one inflectional category tha ...
... if not both (cf. Napoli, 1993: 271-273). According to Julien (2007: 1-2), “the atoms of syntax are morphemes, not entire words” and therefore “transformations operating on these atoms can have both morphological and syntactic effects”. However, she claims that “there is one inflectional category tha ...
Amalgam: A machine-learned generation module
... Reiter (1994) surveys the major natural language generation systems of the late 1980s through the mid-1990s: FUF (Elhadad 1992), IDAS (Reiter at al. 1992), JOYCE (Rambow and Korelsky 1992), PENMAN (Penman 1989) and SPOKESMAN (Meteer 1989). Each of these systems has a different theoretical underpinni ...
... Reiter (1994) surveys the major natural language generation systems of the late 1980s through the mid-1990s: FUF (Elhadad 1992), IDAS (Reiter at al. 1992), JOYCE (Rambow and Korelsky 1992), PENMAN (Penman 1989) and SPOKESMAN (Meteer 1989). Each of these systems has a different theoretical underpinni ...
Ling 390 - Intro to Linguistics
... How do we incorporate the second sentence: she will take the test? This second sentence (called a complement clause or CP) is serving as the complement of the V wonder Like all other syntactic structures, CPs consist of: CP C ' and C ' C IP Words such as that, whether and if are known as complem ...
... How do we incorporate the second sentence: she will take the test? This second sentence (called a complement clause or CP) is serving as the complement of the V wonder Like all other syntactic structures, CPs consist of: CP C ' and C ' C IP Words such as that, whether and if are known as complem ...
1 Deriving the Complementarity Effect: Relativized Minimality in
... correct for preposition-object agreement, it cannot work for T-subject agreement because there is in fact 3.sg. φ-agreement (frozen agreement) in the latter context. The alternative is the AGREEMENT ANALYSIS, which posits that Breton uses more or less the same φ-agreement mechanism as that found in ...
... correct for preposition-object agreement, it cannot work for T-subject agreement because there is in fact 3.sg. φ-agreement (frozen agreement) in the latter context. The alternative is the AGREEMENT ANALYSIS, which posits that Breton uses more or less the same φ-agreement mechanism as that found in ...
Building a lexicon for a categorial grammar of the
... In this dissertation we attempt to adapt the Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) to the specifics of Polish language, and create a bank of sentence derivations in the resulting formalism. CCG is a simple but expressive grammar, proposed by Mark Steedman as an extension of Categorial Grammar first d ...
... In this dissertation we attempt to adapt the Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) to the specifics of Polish language, and create a bank of sentence derivations in the resulting formalism. CCG is a simple but expressive grammar, proposed by Mark Steedman as an extension of Categorial Grammar first d ...
Generative Approaches to Syntactic Typology George Gibbard
... can't really say. Syntax, too, is considered to have nested levels of structure, just as morphological structures are nested within syntactic structures; thus a sentence may be thought of as having a structure in some ways paralleling the internal structures of its constituents, such as noun phrase, ...
... can't really say. Syntax, too, is considered to have nested levels of structure, just as morphological structures are nested within syntactic structures; thus a sentence may be thought of as having a structure in some ways paralleling the internal structures of its constituents, such as noun phrase, ...