Complex Feature Values - NTU Computational Linguistics Lab
... use NP, VP, etc. as abbreviations for the feature structures on COMPS lists. As you do this problem, keep the following points in mind: (1) In chapter 4 COMPS became a list-valued feature, and (2) heads select for their specifier and complements (if they have any); the elements on the SPR and COMPS ...
... use NP, VP, etc. as abbreviations for the feature structures on COMPS lists. As you do this problem, keep the following points in mind: (1) In chapter 4 COMPS became a list-valued feature, and (2) heads select for their specifier and complements (if they have any); the elements on the SPR and COMPS ...
PC-Kimmo
... dictionary entries should there be? Example, the word fair meaning (a) light coloured (b) impartial and (c) a festival. In general answer depends on purposes. Englex’s lexicon is a parsing lexicon, not a full dictionary, so it only distinguishes homonyms having different parts of speech. ...
... dictionary entries should there be? Example, the word fair meaning (a) light coloured (b) impartial and (c) a festival. In general answer depends on purposes. Englex’s lexicon is a parsing lexicon, not a full dictionary, so it only distinguishes homonyms having different parts of speech. ...
PDF file - University of Cambridge
... particular, there is no plausible way in which reanalysis can have played a role, and there is no suggestion that any current or past instance of the form down is potentially ambiguous between a prepositional and a verbal analysis.4 Therefore, lexicalization of grammatical items is not ‘grammatical ...
... particular, there is no plausible way in which reanalysis can have played a role, and there is no suggestion that any current or past instance of the form down is potentially ambiguous between a prepositional and a verbal analysis.4 Therefore, lexicalization of grammatical items is not ‘grammatical ...
German abstract prepositional phrases Christian Lehmann
... only for its structural function. Its meaning plays a subordinate role. We will study the latter in more detail in §3. The second relevant difference between a verbal noun and a participle is that the latter may continue to govern its objects in the way of a finite verb, while a verbal noun loses th ...
... only for its structural function. Its meaning plays a subordinate role. We will study the latter in more detail in §3. The second relevant difference between a verbal noun and a participle is that the latter may continue to govern its objects in the way of a finite verb, while a verbal noun loses th ...
5. Valency Aspects of SVCs
... While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Herslund (1998), Rothkegel (1973) and Persson (1975, 1992) were trying to define support verb constructions by the semantic relation between the noun phrase and the verb, Fontenelle, Malmgren and ...
... While Helbig and Buscha were struggling to identify a distinct class of “Funktionsverben”, and Baron and Herslund (1998), Rothkegel (1973) and Persson (1975, 1992) were trying to define support verb constructions by the semantic relation between the noun phrase and the verb, Fontenelle, Malmgren and ...
On Gerunds and the Theory of Categories
... A foundational question for the theory of syntactic categories—and thus for syntax itself—is whether a single syntactic element can be simultaneously nominal and verbal. The answer to this question depends on one’s notion of what it is to be a noun and what it is to be a verb, so linguists have had ...
... A foundational question for the theory of syntactic categories—and thus for syntax itself—is whether a single syntactic element can be simultaneously nominal and verbal. The answer to this question depends on one’s notion of what it is to be a noun and what it is to be a verb, so linguists have had ...
This opposition reveals a special category, the category
... The system of language is constituted by 3 subsystems: phonetics, vocabulary, grammar. Grammar may be defined as a system of word changing and other means of expressing relations of words in_the_sentence. The 3 constituent parts of language are studied by the corresponding linguistic disciplines: ph ...
... The system of language is constituted by 3 subsystems: phonetics, vocabulary, grammar. Grammar may be defined as a system of word changing and other means of expressing relations of words in_the_sentence. The 3 constituent parts of language are studied by the corresponding linguistic disciplines: ph ...
08 Grammar Past Participles
... BBC Learning English - Quiznet Grammar Past Participles For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer. 1. Did you know over 200 people have successfully ______ solo across the channel from England to France? a. swimmed b. swim c. swam d. swum 2. Hmmm, I love the smell of freshly _____ ...
... BBC Learning English - Quiznet Grammar Past Participles For each of the six questions choose the one correct answer. 1. Did you know over 200 people have successfully ______ solo across the channel from England to France? a. swimmed b. swim c. swam d. swum 2. Hmmm, I love the smell of freshly _____ ...
Creole Genesis and Universality: Case, Word Order, and Agreement
... written creole languages and two signed creole languages. In particular, case, word order, and agreement will be considered as one axis along which to consider the issue of creole genesis and linguistic universality. It has been said in various ways that creoles provide a special, perhaps unique, wi ...
... written creole languages and two signed creole languages. In particular, case, word order, and agreement will be considered as one axis along which to consider the issue of creole genesis and linguistic universality. It has been said in various ways that creoles provide a special, perhaps unique, wi ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database
... Synonymy From what has already been said, it should be obvious that the most important relation for WordNet is similarity of meaning, since the ability to judge that relation between word forms is a prerequisite for the representation of meanings in a lexical matrix. According to one definition (usu ...
... Synonymy From what has already been said, it should be obvious that the most important relation for WordNet is similarity of meaning, since the ability to judge that relation between word forms is a prerequisite for the representation of meanings in a lexical matrix. According to one definition (usu ...
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database (Revised
... Synonymy From what has already been said, it should be obvious that the most important relation for WordNet is similarity of meaning, since the ability to judge that relation between word forms is a prerequisite for the representation of meanings in a lexical matrix. According to one definition (usu ...
... Synonymy From what has already been said, it should be obvious that the most important relation for WordNet is similarity of meaning, since the ability to judge that relation between word forms is a prerequisite for the representation of meanings in a lexical matrix. According to one definition (usu ...
Towards a structural typology of verb classes
... intransitive verbs have one, transitive verbs have two, and ditransitive verbs have three nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pro ...
... intransitive verbs have one, transitive verbs have two, and ditransitive verbs have three nominal arguments. (Verbs with zero valency are extremely rare – one possible semantic class of this kind are weather verbs, such as Latin pluit ‘it rains’, however, note that English uses here an expletive pro ...
“Case suffixes”, postpositions and the Phonological Word in
... While the details of ellipsis in Hungarian are still poorly understood, this means that the process is not restricted to free morphemes and more likely to be sensitive to phonological factors than to the affix/stem distinction.11 Now, if case suffixes and postpositions differ only in phonological te ...
... While the details of ellipsis in Hungarian are still poorly understood, this means that the process is not restricted to free morphemes and more likely to be sensitive to phonological factors than to the affix/stem distinction.11 Now, if case suffixes and postpositions differ only in phonological te ...
General Number and the Semantics and Pragmatics of Indefinite
... the question exactly what the difference is between bare nouns with general number and indefinite full DPs. The second half of the paper is devoted to answering this question. One way in which indefinite bare nouns differ from indefinite full DPs is in their scope, a well-known issue since Carlson’ ...
... the question exactly what the difference is between bare nouns with general number and indefinite full DPs. The second half of the paper is devoted to answering this question. One way in which indefinite bare nouns differ from indefinite full DPs is in their scope, a well-known issue since Carlson’ ...
Non-canonical applicatives and focalization in Tswana
... obligatory head-dependent agreement in the noun phrase, and obligatory agreement of free pronouns and bound pronominal morphemes (subject markers, object markers) with the noun they represent. Noun phrases are head-initial. Verbs show a rich system of morphological variations, including TAM markers, ...
... obligatory head-dependent agreement in the noun phrase, and obligatory agreement of free pronouns and bound pronominal morphemes (subject markers, object markers) with the noun they represent. Noun phrases are head-initial. Verbs show a rich system of morphological variations, including TAM markers, ...
Lectures on Functional Syntax
... return to this in more detail in the next lecture; here I simply want to introduce one of the basic aspects of Functional analysis. Consider the concept Noun. Start with the traditional notional definition: '(word whose reference is) a person, place, or thing'. The basic problem with this is that it ...
... return to this in more detail in the next lecture; here I simply want to introduce one of the basic aspects of Functional analysis. Consider the concept Noun. Start with the traditional notional definition: '(word whose reference is) a person, place, or thing'. The basic problem with this is that it ...
volume 15 - wecol 2003
... constructions to result, the verb must raise in ATB fashion at least as high as the v position. A prediction thus follows: languages where the verb does not raise out of VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears out (see Agbayani and Zoerner (2000) for data and further discussion). Third ...
... constructions to result, the verb must raise in ATB fashion at least as high as the v position. A prediction thus follows: languages where the verb does not raise out of VP will lack LPD constructions; this prediction bears out (see Agbayani and Zoerner (2000) for data and further discussion). Third ...
two types of impersonal sentences in spanish
... be that AGREE may be a long-distance operation in Spanish, as it is in equivalent constructions in other languages (e.g., Icelandic). In section 7, other instances of locative/dative alternation will be analyzed. Data from Catalan and (Old and Modern) Spanish will suggest that the feature [+animate] ...
... be that AGREE may be a long-distance operation in Spanish, as it is in equivalent constructions in other languages (e.g., Icelandic). In section 7, other instances of locative/dative alternation will be analyzed. Data from Catalan and (Old and Modern) Spanish will suggest that the feature [+animate] ...
Verbal categories in Salaca Livonian grammar1 Darbības vārda
... Latvia, in Livonian the use of the passive present participle has been much more productive than the use of the active present participle (cf. Pajusalu 1996, 217). This form denotes the means, time, place etc. of the action, and has parallels in Latvian, e.g. present passive participles ēdamā karote ...
... Latvia, in Livonian the use of the passive present participle has been much more productive than the use of the active present participle (cf. Pajusalu 1996, 217). This form denotes the means, time, place etc. of the action, and has parallels in Latvian, e.g. present passive participles ēdamā karote ...
Effects of indefinite pronouns and traces on verb stress
... Notice that this suggests that adjacency of the verb to the stressed object is not a general precondition for a stressless verb in German. Similar patterns of leftmost stress within the VP in Persian are reported in Kahnemuyipour (2004). 2. The account of the phase-based theory of phrasal stress by ...
... Notice that this suggests that adjacency of the verb to the stressed object is not a general precondition for a stressless verb in German. Similar patterns of leftmost stress within the VP in Persian are reported in Kahnemuyipour (2004). 2. The account of the phase-based theory of phrasal stress by ...
The Sentence Pattern Built on Linking Verbs
... FORMS OF BE: is, am , are-was, were, being, been ...
... FORMS OF BE: is, am , are-was, were, being, been ...
TWO CLASSES OF DOUBLE OBJECT VERBS: THE ROLE OF
... Marantz (1993), McGinnis (1998) and Anagnostopoulou (1999a, 1999b) have proposed that in these languages vAPPL assigns morphological dative or genitive case to the argument it introduces, and therefore the indirect object surfaces with dative case morphology. Nevertheless, the indirect object is act ...
... Marantz (1993), McGinnis (1998) and Anagnostopoulou (1999a, 1999b) have proposed that in these languages vAPPL assigns morphological dative or genitive case to the argument it introduces, and therefore the indirect object surfaces with dative case morphology. Nevertheless, the indirect object is act ...
Morphology and Linguistic Typology
... This project studies in more than a dozen languages the acquisition of morphology up to the age of three years and collects, transcribes, codes (in CHILDES format, cf. MacWhinney 2000) and analyses longitudinal corpora in strictly parallel ways. I have to thank all researchers of this project, whose ...
... This project studies in more than a dozen languages the acquisition of morphology up to the age of three years and collects, transcribes, codes (in CHILDES format, cf. MacWhinney 2000) and analyses longitudinal corpora in strictly parallel ways. I have to thank all researchers of this project, whose ...